Edwin Hedley

The Olympic champions from Philadelphia 1900

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

[1] 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.