Eugène Moetbeek

Eugène Moetbeek began his athletics career in the early 1920s as a student at Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, alongside his brother G. Moetbeek. His father, Eugène, was also well-known in the athletics community and was a member of RFC Liège. Moetbeek quickly established himself as an up-and-comer on the national scene by winning two school champion titles in 1922 and 1923, two junior championship titles in 1923 and 1924, and by coming in second place to Henri Cockuyt in the senior 200 metres competition at the 1924 National Championships. Selected as a member of the 1924 Belgian athletics delegation to the Olympic Games in Paris, he competed in the 100 metres event, but was disqualified in the heats. He was also slated to compete in the 4 × 100 metres event, but the Belgian team did not start. That same year, Moetbeek was also a member of the RFC Liège 800 metre relay team, alongside Paul Brochart, Eugène Langenraedt, and Fred Zinner which defeated a the French team at an international athletics meet.

Moetbeek was the winner of the Belgian 200 metres title in 1925, and the team of Moetbeek, Brochart, Langenraedt and Zinner also won the Belgian 4 × 100 metres relay title on multiple occasions. Moetbeek continued to remain active in athletics until late 1928 when he moved to Africa, settling in Congo. He was still living there in 1946, and was a federal commissioner of the Belgian Colonial Athletics League (Ligue coloniale Belge d’Athlétisme) for the Kasaï region.

Personal Best: 100 – 10.8ed (1924).