Charles Eley

Charles Ryves Maxwell Eley (born September 16, 1902 in Samford , Suffolk , † January 15, 1983 in East Bergholt ) was a British rower .

Charles Eley had been to Eton with James MacNabb , Robert Morrison and Terence Sanders rowed together. The helmsmanless four stayed together when the four moved to Trinity College in Cambridge. The four rowers won the Henley Royal Regatta three times from 1922 to 1924 and remained undefeated for three years. Eley and MacNabb also won in Henley in 1924 in two without a helmsman , after they had already won the 1924 Boat Race with the Cambridge crew against Oxford. At the Olympic Games in 1924 , all four registered boats reached the final in a four-man without a helmsman, the four British won with a four-second lead over the Canadians and the Swiss.

After completing his studies, Eley worked for the British chemical company ICI . After retiring, he returned to Suffolk and built his parents' estate into one of the most important private gardens in England.

Web links

• Charles Eley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

• Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 298-300