Edwin Salisbury

Edwin "Ed" Lyle Salisbury (born May 3, 1910 in Walnut Grove , California , † November 22, 1986 in Sacramento ) was an American rower .

Edwin Salisbury, who is 1.87 m tall, studied at Sacramento Junior College and the University of California, Berkeley . In 1932, the eighth of the Golden Bears , the sports team at the University of Berkeley, won the championships of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association and also qualified for the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Salisbury was the batsman of the boat that won in the run-up to the Olympic regatta by four seconds ahead of the boat from Canada. In the final, the Italian eighth, who was two tenths of a second behind the Californian boat at the finish, led the Canadians bronze.

After graduating, Salisbury went into the packaging industry and later manager of a fruit packaging company.

Web links

Edwin Salisbury in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

Karl Lennartz , Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2015 ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 pp. 252-255

personal data
SURNAME	Salisbury, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Salisbury, Edwin Lyle (full name); Salisbury, Ed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Walnut Grove , California
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1986
Place of death	Sacramento