Edwin Hedley
Edwin "Ed" P. Hedley (born July 23, 1864 in Philadelphia , † May 22, 1947 ibid) was an American rower . Edwin Hedley rowed for the Vesper Boat Club Philadelphia .
Edwin Hedley won the Canadian championships in singles in 1892 and was also successful in the United States as a single rower. He won several titles at US championships, most recently in 1902 in the two-man without a helmsman .
When the Olympic rowing competitions were held for the first time at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 , the eighth of the Vesper Boat Club was the only American boat at the start. William Carr , Harry DeBaecke , John Exley , John Geiger , Edwin Hedley, James Juvenal , Roscoe Lockwood , Edward Marsh and helmsman Louis Abell won with six seconds ahead of the Belgian eighth. Hedley was already 36 years old at the time of his Olympic victory.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
Web links
- Edwin Hedley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ In the book by Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris ( ISBN 3-928562-20-7 ) from 1995 he is referred to as Edward Hedley, in Volker Kluge's 1997 book Summer Olympics. Chronicle I and in the Olympic database Sports Reference he is called Edwin Hedley.
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Hedley, Edwin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hedley, Edwin P. (full name); Hedley, Ed (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1864 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1947 |
Place of death | Philadelphia |