Derek Porter

Derek Porter , also Derek Porter-Nesbitt , (born November 2, 1967 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a former Canadian rower who was Olympic champion in eighth in 1992 and world champion in single in 1993 .

Career

Porter began his career in oar rowing . In 1989 he took eighth place in the two without a helmsman at the World Rowing Championships. In 1990 he moved to eighth and won silver at the World Championships in Tasmania behind the eighth from the Federal Republic of Germany and before the eighth from the GDR. In 1991 in Vienna the German eighth won gold again ahead of the Canadians. At the Olympic Games in 1992 , the Canadian eighth won the final with 14 hundredths of a second ahead of the Romanian boat.

In 1993 Porter switched to scull rowing and immediately won the title at the World Championships in Racice ahead of Czech Václav Chalupa and Olympic champion Thomas Lange . In 1994 as eighth and in 1995 as seventh, he missed the single final of the best six. At the 1996 Olympic Games , the Swiss Xeno Müller won with a two and a half second lead over Porter, who won the silver medal just ahead of Lange.

After two weaker years, in which Porter forced his training as a chiropractor, he returned to the world class at the 1999 World Championships in Canada; in St. Catharines he finished third behind the New Zealander Rob Waddell and Xeno Müller. The following year, Porter reached his third Olympic final at the 2000 Olympic Games . The first four boats reached the goal in 2.20 seconds, Waddell won ahead of Müller and the German Marcel Hacker , Porter was fourth, 27 hundredths of a second behind Hacker.

Web links

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