Edward Pain
Edward "Ted" Oscar Guthrie Pain (born July 15, 1925 in Thirroul , New South Wales , † January 6, 2000 in Greenwich , New South Wales) was an Australian rower . In 1952 he was Olympic third with the Australian eighth .
Athletic career
In 1950 he won the British Empire Games in Auckland with the Australian eighth .
Two years later, the Australian eighth in the line-up Bob Tinning , Ernest Chapman , Nimrod Greenwood , Mervyn Finlay , Edward Pain, Phil Cayzer , Tom Chessell , David Anderson and helmsman Geoff Williamson at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. In the first run, the Australians took second place behind the Yugoslavs. In the second semifinals they reached the finish line third behind the boats from the United States and the Soviet Union, but were able to prevail as the winner of the first run of hope against the Yugoslavs. In the final, the boat from the United States won ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union and the Australians in the semifinals.
Web links
- Edward Pain in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Entry in the Commonwealth Games , accessed on January 21, 2020
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 270f
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pain, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pain, Edward Oscar Guthrie (full name); Pain, Ted (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thirroul , New South Wales |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2000 |
| Place of death | Greenwich , New South Wales |