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1984 Canadian Mens Rowing Eight

The team, coached by Neil Campbell (a rowing Olympian in 1964 and 1968), came together in 1984 and won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, warding off a furious last minute challenge from the home-crowd favourites, the team from the USA.

2011 Pan American Games national flag bearers

Prominent flag bearers included Canadian football star Christine Sinclair, American rower Jason Read, Mexican archer Juan René Serrano and Brazilian table tennis player Hugo Hoyama, who is the all-time Pan American Games leader in total medals won for Brazil.

2013 Bradford Bulls season

Young fullback Curtis Naughton (3 Year Deal), centre Sam Wood (2 Year Deal) and second rower Oliver Roberts (3 Year Deal) were all give professional contracts and promoted to the first team.

Alex Partridge

Having won a silver medal in the four at the World U23 Championships with Christopher Martin, Henry Adams and Dan Ouseley, the crew met the standard to gain selection for the coxed four at the senior World Championships in Lucerne.

Aronsson

Ivar Aronsson (born 1928), Swedish rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics

Beery

Dan Beery, American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion.

Benjamin Hunting Howell

Benjamin Hunting Howell (born September 3, 1875) was an American rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta and the Wingfield Sculls in 1898 and 1899.

Budgett

Richard Budgett (born 1959), British Olympic rower (Gold Medal, Coxed Fours, 1984) and chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London.

Cameron McKenzie-McHarg

Cameron McKenzie-McHarg (born 17 April 1980 in Leongatha, and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne) is an Australian rower.

Chris Barton

Christopher Barton (born 1927), British rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics

Christine Scheiblich

Christine Scheiblich-Hahn (born December 31, 1954 in Wilsdruff, Sachsen) is a German rower and Olympic champion.

Clopton Lloyd-Jones

He also became involved with the Pengwerne Boat Club, Shrewsbury, from 1885 though not as a competitive rower.

Egon Meyer

Egon Meyer is a retired German rower who won the European title in coxed fours in 1957, together with Lothar Wundratsch, Gerhard Müller, Heinz Dathe and Dietmar Domnick.

Ejler

Ejler Allert (1881–1959), Danish rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics

Elana Hill

Elana Hill (born 28 May 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean rower.

Eley

Charles Eley (September 16, 1902 -January 15, 1983) was a British rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics

Frank Stout

Stout came from a notable sporting family, his father William Stout, was a Diamond Sculls winner, while his brother, Percy also played international rugby for England.

Gavin Bellis

At the 2013 World Championships in Chungju, South Korea, he partnered with Kathryn Ross to win the gold medal in the Mixed Double Sculls TAMix2x.

Hartmut Schreiber

Hartmut Schreiber (born January 1, 1944 in Wittich) is a German rower, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.

Heinz Dathe

Heinz Dathe is a retired German rower who won the European title in coxed fours in 1957, together with Lothar Wundratsch, Gerhard Müller, Egon Meyer and Dietmar Domnick.

Ioana Olteanu

Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February 1966 in Drăcșenei, Teleorman) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition.

James Gillan

James Angus Gillan, Scottish rower, gold medallist at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics

Jean Elichagaray

Jean Baptiste Pierre Eugène Elichagaray (September 3, 1886 – June 8, 1987) was a French rower who competed in the men's eights event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

John Anthony Gallagher

Unfortunately though, Gallagher's defense came into question later in that game when giant Kangaroo second rower Paul Sironen scored two tries, both times running over the top of him.

Kate Allen

Kate Slatter (born 1971), Australian rower whose married name is Kate Allen

Ko Rentmeester

Co Rentmeester (Jakobus Willem Rentmeester; born 1936), Dutch rower and photojournalist

Lothar Wundratsch

Lothar Wundratsch is a retired German rower who won the European title in coxed fours in 1957, together with Gerhard Müller, Egon Meyer, Heinz Dathe and Dietmar Domnick.

Luis María Lasúrtegui

Luis Mari Lasurtegui Berridi (born March 28, 1956 in Pasaia, Guipúzcoa ) is a Spanish competition rower and Olympic champion.

Marietta College

John Strotbeck, Jr. - Former U.S. Olympic Rower and owner of Boathouse Sports.

Melville Senior High School

Notable people who have attended Melville Senior High School included golfer Craig Parry; Sally Robbins, a former Olympic rower; and Peter Capes, the current CEO of the Subiaco Football Club.

Nikolaos Gkountoulas

Nikolaos Gkountoulas (born 4 February 1985 in Kozani) is a Greek rower.

Nykirke

Olaf Tufte – competition rower, two times Olympic gold medalist

Renforth, New Brunswick

It is named after James Renforth, a rower from Britain who had died of heart failure during a match against Saint John's famous Paris Crew in August 1870 in the waters of the Kennebecasis River off the community.

RowPerfect

Used by Olympic athletes in both sculling and sweep disciplines including Mahé Drysdale, Alan Campbell and crews from US Rowing and New Zealand.

Sebastian Thormann

Sebastian Thormann (born 21 February 1976 in Wermelskirchen) is a German rower.

Sidney Swann

Swan was born at Sulby, Lezayre, Isle of Man, the son of Sydney Swann, a rower and clergyman who took his family to Japan where he was a missionary.

St Catherine's College Boat Club

Notable people associated with the club include British Olympic gold medallists Matthew Pinsent and Andrew Triggs Hodge and silver medallist Colin Smith.

Stan Bisset

A back-rower, Bisset played with the Power House Rugby Club in Melbourne.

Station Road, Swinton

Britain's comprehensive victory over the French at Swinton was marred by the first double sending-off in World Cup annals, France's skipper Jean Barthe and Britain's second-rower Vince Karalius being despatched by Edouard Martung, a police inspector from Bordeaux.

Terry Fox Award

The selection committee, that included Fox's brother, Darrell, sportscaster Brian Williams, former-Olympian and VANOC board member Charmaine Crooks and former rower Tricia Smith, originally planned to choose only one recipient but felt both athletes' stories were so compelling that they decided to honour both.

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.

Tollefsen

Tollef Tollefsen (1885–1963 ), Norwegian rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics

Trinity College Boat Club

A Trinity rower in 1831 by the name of James Pycroft detailed how the men within the team would pay for a boat for college themselves, and would levy a rate upon all members of the college to help pay as ‘it being considered that the boat and its anticipated victories were for the honour of the college generally’.

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov, Russian rower who became the first three-time Olympic gold medalist in the single scull event

Warre

Edmond Warre (1837–1920), English rower and head master of Eton College

William Fawcus

William Fawcus (born 10 October 1850) was a British rower who won the Wingfield Sculls and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1871, being the first provincial competitor to do so.


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