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Joe Rantz's gold medal from the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, currently on display at the Conibear Shellhouse, University of Washington campus courtesy of the Rantz family. Joseph Harry Rantz (March 31, 1914 – September 10, 2007) was an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [1]
The Boys in the Boat is about the University of Washington eight-oared rowing crew that represented the United States in rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight in Berlin, and narrowly beat out Italy and Germany to win the gold medal. The main character is Joe Rantz. Rantz had a tough time growing up and was abandoned by his family ...
The true story behind The Boys in the Boat. Joe Rantz was born on 31 March 1914 in Spokane, Washington. His mother, Nellie, died from throat cancer when he was just four and he went on to have a ...
An elderly Joe Rantz watches his grandson rowing a fiberglass boat, thinking back to his glorious rowing days. In 1936, Joe Rantz is a poor engineering student at the University of Washington (UW), living in an abandoned car and eating canned food, with no job and tuition fees due in two weeks.
The film retells the story of how Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) and eight other working-class students rowing for the University of Washington beat Nazi Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, led by ...
The film retells the story of how Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) and eight other working-class students rowing for the University of Washington beat Nazi Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, led by ...
“The movie is based on an incredible book by Daniel James Brown about the true story of these Depression-era boys who set out to row crew and eventually won the gold at the Berlin Olympics in ...
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912. [7] The 1936 competition had a six-boat final for the first time.