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not included in the Olympic program: 1920 Antwerp details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Pietro Annoni and Erminio Dones Gaston Giran and Alfred Plé 1924 Paris details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Marc Detton and Jean-Pierre Stock Rudolf Bosshard and Heini Thoma 1928 Amsterdam details Paul Costello
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 US. [1] This win represented the first time that the Canadian men's eight won an Olympic or ...
Pat Turner, Kevin Neufeld, Mark Evans, Grant Main, Paul Steele, J. Michael Evans, Dean Crawford, Blair Horn, and Brian McMahon – Rowing, Men's Eight with Coxswain (see also 1984 Canadian Mens Rowing Eight) Linda Thom – Shooting, Women's 25 m Pistol; Alex Baumann – Swimming, Men's 200 m Individual Medley
Pages in category "Olympic rowers for Canada" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 409 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Evans was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA. His twin brother Michael was on the same winning team. The rowing team was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, [ 1 ] and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2003. [ 2 ]
This rowing event features nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It is a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The competition consists of multiple rounds. The course uses the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912. [3]
A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Summer Olympics Athletics. [1] Many Olympic sports or events do not allow three entries into a single event in the Olympics, making a sweep impossible.
Thomas Herschmiller (born April 6, 1978 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian rower. He graduated from Brentwood College School in 1996. He won a gold medal at the 2003 world championships [ 1 ] in Milan , Italy and a silver in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics .