Charles Clapp
Charles Elmer Clapp, III (born January 11, 1959 in Providence ) is a former rower from the United States . With the eighth finish, he was second in the 1984 Olympics and third in the 1981 World Cup.
Career
The 1.96 m tall Charles Clapp studied and rowed at the University of Washington . At the 1981 World Championships in Munich, the eighth from the Soviet Union won ahead of the British and the eighth from the United States in the line-up of Daniel Lyons , John Zevenbergen , Thomas Kiefer , James McDougall , John Phinney , David Clark , Charles Clapp, Matthew Labine and Steuermann Seth Bauer . The boat from the USA was one and a half seconds behind the British and over four seconds ahead of the fourth-placed boat from the GDR. At the 1982 World Championships in Lucerne, Clapp finished fourth behind the boats from New Zealand, the GDR and the Soviet Union. In the following year, the eighth finished seventh at the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg.
Of the six first-placed boats from 1983, the world champions from New Zealand, the third-placed Australians and the fifth-placed French also competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the boats from the GDR, the USSR and Czechoslovakia were missing because of the Olympic boycott. The US eighth in the line-up Walter Lubsen , Andrew Sudduth , John Terwilliger , Christopher Penny , Thomas Darling , Fred Borchelt , Charles Clapp, Bruce Ibbetson and helmsman Robert 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.
Clapp graduated from the University of Washington in 1981 and later received his MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management . He worked in the financial sector and eventually started his own wealth management company.
His older brother Eugene Clapp won silver with eighth at the 1972 Olympics .
Web links
- Charles Clapp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Charles Clapp at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Championship in eighth 1981 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. 1017f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clapp, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clapp, Charles Elmer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Providence |