Carol Brown (rower)
Carol Page Brown (born April 19, 1953 in Oak Park , Illinois ) is a former American rower who was third in the 1976 Olympics with an eighth .
Athletic career
Carol Brown, 1.72 m tall, was on both the swim team and the rowing team while studying at Princeton University . Internationally, she first appeared at the 1974 World Rowing Championships , when she finished fifth in the two-man category without a helmsman . In 1975, the eighth from the United States won the silver medal behind the GDR eighth in the line-up of Christine Ernst , Carol Brown, Nancy Storrs , Wiki Royden , Claudia Schneider , Anne Warner , Gail Pierson , Carolyn Graves and taxwoman Lynn Silliman at the World Championships in Nottingham .
The next year, Jacqueline Zoch , Anita DeFrantz , Carolyn Graves, Marion Greig , Anne Warner, Margaret McCarthy , Carol Brown, Gail Ricketson and Lynn Silliman made up the US eighth. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , the US eight finished second behind the GDR eight in the preliminary run and won the repechage. In the final, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union. Two and a half seconds behind the Soviet boat and one second ahead of the Canadians, the rowers from the United States received the bronze medal.
After a year break, Carol Brown returned to the international regatta courses in 1978. At the World Championships in New Zealand she won the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR in a foursome with a helmsman together with Anita DeFrantz, Cozema Crawford , Nancy Storrs and helmsman Hollis Hatton . Brown, DeFrantz, Storrs and Hatton also sat in the figure eight, which finished fourth with Janet Harville , Anne Warner, Valerie Barber , Susan Tuttle and Anne Marden . The following year, the US eight won the bronze medal behind the boats from the Soviet Union and the GDR at the 1979 World Championships in Bled. The 1979 cast consisted of Carol Brown, Carol Bower , Susan Tuttle, Jeanne Flanagan , Patricia Brink , Patricia Spratlin , Janet Harville, Mary O'Connor, and Hollis Hatton.
In 1980, Carol Brown was a member of the US eight that beat the eight from the GDR in Lucerne. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, no athletes from the United States competed because of the Olympic boycott . At the 1981 World Championships in Munich, Carol Bower, Carol Brown, Jeanne Flanagan, Patricia Spratlin, Kristine Norelius , Carolyn Graves, Elizabeth Hills-O'Leary , Elizabeth Miles and helmsman Valerie McClain-Ward formed the US eighth, who was the silver medal behind the Soviet boat won. In 1983 Brown entered the world championships in Duisburg in a four-man team with a helmsman and finished in fifth place again.
Web links
- Carol Brown in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Carol Brown at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- World championships in women's eight
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 563f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Carol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Carol Page (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oak Park , Illinois |