Clyde Hefer

Clyde Hefer (born April 12, 1961 ) is a former Australian rower .

Career

At the World Rowing Championships in 1979 , the Australian lightweight four without a helmsman in the line-up of Geoffrey Webb , Gary Hefer , Clyde Hefer and Graeme Wearne took sixth place. The following year, the Australian foursome appeared in a new line-up. Graham Gardiner , Charles Bartlett , Clyde Hefer and Simon Gillett won the 1980 World Rowing Championships in front of the boats from Denmark and the United Kingdom. In 1981 in Munich , the Australian four-man won in the same line-up ahead of the Dutch and Canadians.

Since lightweight rowing was not on the Olympic program in the 1980s, the 1.87 m tall Clyde Hefer switched to rowing without weight restrictions. In the 1984 Olympic Games rowing in Los Angeles TEFER in the Australian eight . Six out of seven competing eights should reach the final, the Australians won the rebound ahead of the Canadians. In the final, all seven boats started after the French boat was approved for the final despite being eliminated in the hope race. In the final, the Canadians won ahead of the hosts, followed by the Australians who won the bronze medal.

Web links

Clyde Hefer at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Clyde Hefer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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. 1112, note 518. The boom of a French rower had been damaged by an unknown hand by sawing a piece of metal.

personal data
SURNAME	Hefer, Clyde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1961

[1] Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1112, note 518. The boom of a French rower had been damaged by an unknown hand by sawing a piece of metal.