Doug Hamilton

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Douglas "Doug" Hamilton (born August 19, 1958 in Toronto ) is a former Canadian rower who won the 1985 world championship in quadruples .

Career

At the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg, 1.86 m tall Doug Hamilton, along with Mike Hughes , Phil Monckton and Bruce Ford, took fourth place in the four-four behind the boats from Germany, the GDR and the Italians. Of the boats placed in front of the Canadians, only the double scull from the GDR did not start at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The West Germans and the Australians qualified directly for the final from the preliminary runs. The Canadians took third place behind the Germans and the Italians in the preliminary run and then won the repechage. In the final, the Germans won ahead of the Australians, behind them the Canadians won the bronze medal ahead of the Italians.

In 1985, the Canadian double scull was replaced, with Robert Mills , Paul Douma and Melvin LaForme joining Doug Hamilton . At the 1985 World Championships in Hazwinkel, the Canadians won 0.28 seconds ahead of the boat from the GDR, behind which the double-four from Czechoslovakia received the bronze medal. A year later, at the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham, the double scull from the Soviet Union won ahead of the Poles, followed by the four Canadians rowing bronze. In 1987 the double foursome from the USSR won the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen in front of the Norwegians, followed by Hamilton, Mills, Douma and LaForme won bronze as in the previous year. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the four Canadians were the last to miss the A-final in the semi-finals and finished in ninth place overall as third of the B-final.

Doug Hamilton graduated from Queen's University in 1980 and completed his law degree there in 1983, and in 1987 he also completed a post-graduate degree at the University of London . After retiring in 1988, he specialized in environmental and health law and worked in a large law firm. Doug Hamilton is married to the basketball player and 1984 Olympian Lynn Polson , and their two sons Dougie and Freddie were international ice hockey players for Canada.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ World Cup final 1983 at worldrowing.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1015f
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto