Bernard Redwood
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| gold | 1908 London | C class |
Bernard Boverton Redwood (born November 28, 1874 in Finchley , † September 28, 1911 in Hampstead ) was a British motorboat driver .
Redwood was at the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , together with the two other crew members of the Gyrinus , Thomas Thornycroft and John Field-Richards , two-time Olympic champions in motorboating , in the B-class and in the C-class , each over 40 nautical miles. Thornycroft enlisted the help of both crew members to scoop out the water that had entered due to the rough seas. In addition, Redwood had previously made a name for himself as a member of the Royal Motor Yacht Club and won an award for his research into motor boats.
In the B-Class, where only boats with a maximum length of 20 meters were allowed to participate, the Gyrinus started against John Marshall Gorham with the Quicksilver . However, this had to give up after two laps because water had run into the boat, so that Redwood, together with the other two members, became the first Olympic champion in motor boating.
In the C-Class, which took place the next day, the boats were only allowed to be seven meters long and weigh a maximum of 800 kilograms. Again the Gyrinus started with only one competitor, the Sea Dog from Warwick Wright . But this time too the rival had to give up because the engine had overheated. Redwood and the Gyrinus became double Olympic champions. In the last competition, the A-Class, the Gyrinus did not start, the Frenchman Émile Thubron won .
Since motor boating never again became an Olympic sport after 1908, Redwood, Thornycroft and Field-Richards remain the most successful athletes of this sport with two gold medals.
Only three years after his Olympic victory in 1911, Redwood died of pneumonia before his father, whose title Sir he could no longer take.
literature
- Ian Buchanan: British Olympians . Enfield 1991 ISBN 0-85112-952-8
Web links
- Bernard Redwood in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Redwood, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Redwood, Bernard Boverton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Olympic champion in motor boating |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finchley |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1911 |
| Place of death | Hampstead |