Cyril Wright
| Cyril Wright medal table |
||
|---|---|---|
 United Kingdom
|
||
 Olympic games
|
||
| gold | Antwerp 1920 | 7 meter class |
Cyril Macey Wright (born September 17, 1885 in London , † July 26, 1960 in Bournemouth ) was a British sailor .
successes
Cyril Wright, of the Royal Burnham Yacht Club sailed, was in 1920 in Antwerp at the Olympic Games in the 7-meter class Olympic champion . He was the skipper and co-owner of the Ancora , whose crew consisted of Robert Coleman , William Maddison and Wright's wife Dorothy Wright , which had only one competitor with the Norwegian boat Fornebo from skipper Johan Faye . The Fornebo won the first race, but the Ancora secured victory in the second and third races and thus finished the regatta in first place.
During the First World War , Wright served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . In 1917 he married Dorothy Wright while on home leave. Her father, Cyril Wright's father-in-law Percy Machin, was a co-owner of the Ancora . After Wright, who was working as a shipbuilding engineer in London , retired, he spent his retirement with his wife in Poole .
Web links
- Cyril Wright in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Cyril |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Cyril Macey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1960 |
| Place of death | Bournemouth , UK |