Bruce Ford (rower)
Bruce Singleton Ford (born September 18, 1954 in Victoria , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in quad sculls in 1984.
Career
Bruce Ford began rowing at the University of British Columbia . In 1979 he won a double scull with Patrick Walter at the Pan American Games . At the 1979 World Championships , the two Canadians finished eighth. The 1980 Olympic Games missed Ford due to the Olympic boycott .
At the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg, Doug Hamilton , Mike Hughes , Phil Monckton and Bruce Ford took fourth place in the four-four behind the boats from Germany, the GDR and the Italians. Of the boats placed in front of the Canadians, only the double scull from the GDR did not start at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The West Germans and the Australians qualified directly for the final from the preliminary runs. The Canadians took third place behind the Germans and the Italians in the preliminary run and then won the repechage. In the final, the Germans won ahead of the Australians, behind them the Canadians won the bronze medal ahead of the Italians.
1986 Ford and Walter won the double scull at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. At the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham, the two rowed to eighth place. A year later they were eleventh at the World Championships in Copenhagen . After finishing tenth at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Bruce Ford ended his active career.
After studying zoology at the University of British Columbia, Ford earned a master's degree in environmental management from Simon Fraser University in 1989 . He later worked as an environmental biologist.
Web links
- Bruce Ford in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Bruce Ford at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Cup final 1983 at worldrowing.com
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1015f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ford, Bruce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ford, Bruce Singleton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Victoria , British Columbia |