Conn Findlay

Conn Findlay medal table
Rowers and sailors
United States
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1956 Melbourne	Two with a helmsman
gold	1964 Tokyo	Two with a helmsman
bronze	1960 Rome	Two with a helmsman
bronze	1976 Montreal	Tempest

Conn Francis Findlay (born April 24, 1930 in Stockton , California ) is an American rower , sailor and two-time Olympic champion . He is one of the few athletes who has won Olympic medals in various sports.

He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1956 , where he also began rowing. Together with Arthur Ayrault from Stanford University and helmsman Kurt Seiffert , he took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and won the gold medal. Four years later, at the Summer Olympics in Rome , he won the bronze medal in two with helmsman . In 1964 in Tokyo he was finally able to win the gold medal again in the same discipline.

At the Summer Olympics in 1976 he took part in the sailing competition in the Tempest boat class with Dennis Conner and reached 3rd place. Findlay was also part of the sailing crews that won the America's Cup in 1974 and 1977.

Findlay later worked for several years at Stanford University as a rowing coach and was inducted into the university's Hall of Fame in 2005. On 7 December 2007 he was selected by American Rowing Federation USRowing as Man of the Year Award.

Today he lives in Northern California and is still a referee in several regattas.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former Stanford Rowing Coach Conn Findlay Named US Rowing's Man of the Year . Retrieved January 1, 2011.

Web links

• Conn Findlay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Conn Findlay at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )