Robert Jaugstetter

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Robert "Bob" Jaugstetter (* 15. June 1948 in Savannah , Georgia ) is a former coxswain in rowing from the United States . He was second in the 1984 Olympics with the eighth and won two medals at world championships with the four with helmsman .

Career

Jaugstetter drove the four-man to the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in 1975 . In the same year he finished tenth with the foursome at the World Championships in Nottingham . At the 1977 World Championships he reached sixth place with eighth, followed by fourth with four in 1978 and fifth with eight in 1979 . In 1980 he missed the Moscow Olympics because of the Olympic boycott .

In 1981 he drove the American foursome with Andrew Sudduth , Thomas Woodman , John Everett and Fred Borchelt to the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR at the World Championships in Munich . The following year, the boat from the GDR won the world championships in Lucerne, ahead of the boat from Czechoslovakia. Behind them Andrew Sudduth, Charles Altekruse , John Everett and Fred Borchelt won the bronze medal with Robert Jaugstetter. At the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg , Thomas Darling rowed together with Sudduth, Everett, Borchelt and Jaugstetter, and the crew took seventh place. In 1984 Sudduth, Darling, Borchelt and Jaugstetter moved into eighth. The US eighth in the line-up Walter Lubsen , Sudduth, John Terwilliger , Christopher Penny , Darling, Borchelt, Charles Clapp , Bruce Ibbetson and Jaugstetter won his preliminary run in Los Angeles, the New Zealanders won the other preliminary run. In the final, the Canadians won with four tenths of a second ahead of the boat from the United States and the Australians, the New Zealanders only achieved fourth place.

The 1.59 m tall Jaugstetter graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1970 . Besides and after his active career, he worked as a rowing coach. First he trained the offspring at Saint Joseph's University, later he was at Wichita State University and Northeastern University . From 1985 he coached the rowers at Tulane University in New Orleans for over thirty years .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entry in the Hall of Fame at Saint Joseph's University (accessed March 20, 2020)
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1017f
personal data
SURNAME Jaugstetter, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaugstetter, Bob (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Savannah , Georgia