Charles McIlvaine (rower)

Charles Joseph McIlvaine senior (born August 6, 1903 in Philadelphia , † January 30, 1975 in Ocean City , New Jersey ) was an American rower .

Charles McIlvaine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and rowed for the Penn Athletic Club . Together with Paul Costello he won the double scull several times at the American championships.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , a total of ten boats took part in a double scull. Costello and McIlvaine won in the preliminary run against the Swiss Rudolf Bosshard and Maurice Rieder and in the intermediate run against the Austrians Leo Losert and Viktor Flessl . As both the Swiss and the Austrians rose through the hope runs, Costello and McIlvaine again defeated the Swiss in the quarter-finals and the Austrians again in the semi-finals. In the all-American final, Costello and McIlvaine won almost ten seconds ahead of Canadians Joseph Wright and John Guest .

Charles McIlvaines son of the same name won the US eighth at the 1955 Pan American Games.

Web links

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

literature

• Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the IX. 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and the II Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-89784-411-7 . Pp. 322-325