Anna Seaton
Anna Banana Seaton , after marriage to Huntington , (born February 12, 1964 in Topeka , Kansas ) is a former rower from the United States who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1992.
Career
Anna Seaton began rowing at Harvard University . She later graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Journalism .
She won her first international medal at the World Championships in Copenhagen in 1987 , when the American eighth with Anna Seaton, Kristen Thorsness , Christine Campbell , Sarah Gengler , Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson , Susan Broome , Abigail Peck , Harriet Metcalf and taxwoman Betsy Beard behind the silver medal won the Romanian eighth. The following year, the American eighth started at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with Juliet Thompson , Christine Campbell, Abigail Peck, Margaret Mallery , Susan Broome, Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Anna Seaton, Alison Townley and Betsy Beard. The Americans took third place in the preliminary run and fourth place in the hope run. In the final, they finished sixth.
In 1989 Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson switched to the two-man team without a helmsman . At the World Championships in Bled , the two finished fourth behind the boats from the GDR, Romania and the Federal Republic of Germany. In November 1990 the World Championships took place in Tasmania , the last time the GDR team competed. In a two-man race without a helmsman, the boat from Germany won ahead of Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson and the boat from the GDR. Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson also competed with the eighth and won their second silver medal behind the Romanians and in front of the boat from the GDR. In 1991, Cynthia Eckert , Shelagh Donohoe , Anna Seaton and Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson rowed in a foursome without a helmsman and won the silver medal behind the Canadians at the World Championships in Vienna . For the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson returned in twos. The two won their preliminary and their semi-finals. In the final, the Canadians won ahead of the Germans, Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson won the bronze medal 0.15 seconds behind the Germans.
Seaton later became one of the first all-women crew to qualify for the America's Cup in 1995 . About this experience, she wrote the book Making Waves: The Inside Story of Managing and Motivating the First Women's Team to Compete for the America's Cup.
Web links
- Anna Seaton in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Anna Seaton at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Portrait in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 186
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 507f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seaton, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seaton, Anna Banana (full name); Huntington, Anna Banana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Topeka |