Douglas Burden

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William Douglas "Doug" Burden (born July 29, 1965 in Rutland , Vermont ) is a former rower from the United States, who was 1987 world champion with the eighth .

Career

The six-foot-tall Burden rowed in the Princeton University selection . At the 1986 World Championships , the four-man with helmsman in the line-up of Douglas Burden, Chris Huntington , Kurt Bausback , John Walters and helmsman Jonathan Fish won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and New Zealand. In 1987, the US eight started at the World Championships in Nottingham with the cast Michael Teti , Jon Smith , Ted Patton , Michael Still , Peter Nordell , Jeffrey McLaughlin , Douglas Burden, John Pescatore and helmsman Seth Bauer . The US eight won the final three seconds ahead of the boat from the GDR, behind which the Italians received bronze. The boat from the Federal Republic of Germany took sixth place. In the following year, the Germany eight won the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with almost two seconds ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union. The US eight won the bronze medal, 25 hundredths of a second behind the boat from the USSR, with only John Rusher joining Michael Still compared to the previous year .

In 1990 he finished fourth in the double scull at the World Championships in Tasmania , and in 1991 he reached sixth place. 1992 Burden joined the Olympics in Barcelona in the coxless four at that in the cast Jeffrey McLaughlin, Douglas Burden, Thomas Bohrer and Patrick Manning with one and a half seconds behind the Australians won the silver medal. For the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Burden returned to the US eighth and finished in fifth place.

After studying at Princeton, Burden earned an MBA from IESE Business School . He later served as vice president of the Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston. Burden's grandfather Harald Paumgarten took part in the Winter Olympics for Austria in 1928 and 1932.

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personal data
SURNAME Burden, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burden, William Douglas (full name); Burden, Doug (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Rutland , Vermont