May 05, 1898Verviers, Wallonia, BelgiumDied on 10 Feb 1949 (aged 50)
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About Max Houben
Max Houben (5 May 1898 – 10 February 1949) was a versatile Belgian athlete who competed from the early 1920s until his death at the 1949 FIBT World Championships.
He won a silver medal in the four-man bobsled event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St.
Moritz and was the oldest medalist at the Winter Olympics (48 years, 278 days) until Canadian Russ Howard won a gold medal in men's curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (50 years, 7 days).