Darren Barber

Darren Barber (born December 26, 1968 in Victoria ) is a retired Canadian rower .

Barber won the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman at the 1986 Junior World Championships . At the 1989 World Championships , a four-man rowed with helmsman Darren Barber, Darby Berkhout , Andy Crosby , Bruce Robertson and helmsman Terrence Paul to tenth place. In 1990 four members of this crew switched to the Canadian eight . At the 1990 World Championships , the Germany eight won ahead of the Canadian eight in the line-up Darren Barber, Andy Crosby, Robert Marland , Derek Porter , Michael Rascher , Bruce Robertson, Brian Saunderson , John Wallace and Terrence Paul. The Germans also won the 1991 World Championships ahead of the Canadians, in which Don Telfer was in the boat for Brian Saunderson. At the 1992 Olympic Regatta in Barcelona, ​​the Canadian eighth competed with Michael Forgeron for Don Telfer. The Canadians won the first heat and finished second behind the Romanians in the first semi-final. In the final, the Canadians won with fourteen hundredths of a second ahead of the Romanians, the Germany eighth received the bronze medal.

After a year break, in which Barber pursued his medical studies, he formed a two-man without helmsman with Phil Graham at the 1994 World Championships , the two finished fourth. At the 1996 Olympic Games , only Crosby and Barber sat in the Canadian eighth from the 1992 Olympic champion boat, which finished fourth. After that, Barber resigned and worked as a doctor. In 2004, the 1.93 m tall barber tried again to make a comeback, which he broke off after two victories with eighth in the Rowing World Cup .

Darren Barber is the grandson of the ice hockey player and pole vaulter Syl Apps and the nephew of his son Syl Apps junior , who was also an ice hockey player. Barber's cousin Gillian Apps was an Olympic ice hockey champion.

Web links

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