Alfred Lindley

Alfred "Al" Damon Lindley (born January 20, 1904 in Minneapolis , † February 22, 1951 in Paxton , Nebraska ) was an American rower .

1.87 m tall Lindley had started rowing at Phillips Andover Prep School . After moving to Yale University , he rowed three seasons in the university's first eight . In 1924 he was batsman in the Yale eight, which started for the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. In the second run, the crew won ahead of the boats from Canada and the Netherlands. In the final, the British and the Italians competed as preliminary winners alongside the Americans, and the Canadians came as winners of the repechage. At the finish of the finals, the Americans had a lead of over 15 seconds over the Canadians, as in the preliminary run, the Italians received the bronze medal.

Lindley graduated in 1925 and worked as a lawyer. In 1951 he died in a plane crash.

Web links

Alfred Lindley in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

literature

Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 302–305

personal data
SURNAME	Lindley, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lindley, Alfred Damon (full name); Lindley, Al (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minneapolis
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1951
Place of death	Paxton , Nebraska