Isabelle Plancke

Isabelle Raymonde Madeleine Plancke (8 April 1910 — 1 August 1997) was a French swimmer and water polo player. She specialized in the breaststroke and in open water swimming.

Isabelle Plancke

Plancke in 1926
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1910-04-08)8 April 1910 Comines, France
Died	1 August 1997(1997-08-01) (aged 87) Limeil-Brévannes, France
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	breaststroke
Club	Mouettes de Paris CN Marseille

Career

Plancke started swimming around the age of 12 with Mouettes de Paris. With the team she became several times champion of Paris in the relay event. In the early 1930s she was a member of CN Marseille.

She was a specialist in open water swimming and took several times part in the Traversée de Paris à la nage, the main open water competition in France. She finished second in 1926 and 1927 and finished fourth in 1931 and 1932. In 1931 she won with her team the team classification.

At the French national championships she competed in the 200 metre breaststroke event in 1926 and finished fourth. The next year, in 1927 she won the bronze medal. In 1928 she competed in the qualifying events for the 1928 Summer Olympics. She also participated in other swimming competitions and also competed with Mouettes de Paris in water polo matches, together with her sister Yolande Plancke.

Personal life

Plancke was born on 18 April 1910 in Comines. Her father worked as a commercial employee and her mother Julie Delporte also came to Paris. In 1929, the family lived at Rue des Goncourt. She was the sister of Olympic athlete Yolande Plancke.

On 7 August 1943, she married Yves Garnier in Paris. On her marriage, she worked as a production manager, and lived with her widowed mother in Soisy-sous-Montmorency. She divorced three years after her marriage. She died in Limeil-Brévannes on 1 August 1997, at the age of 87.