Eugene Clapp
Eugene "Gene" Howard Clapp, IV (born November 19, 1949 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) is a retired rower from the United States . He was second in 1972 with the eighth .
Career
Eugene Clapp began rowing at a summer camp when he was twelve. He later rowed for the University of Pennsylvania and the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia.
At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 15 eights were at the start. The eighth from the United States with Lawrence Terry , Franklin Hobbs , Peter Raymond , Timothy Mickelson , Eugene Clapp, William Hobbs , Cleve Livingston , Michael Livingston and helmsman Paul Hoffman won the first run in front of the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany. In the semi-finals, the eighth from the USA took third place behind the eighth from the GDR and the USSR. In the final, the boat from New Zealand won with a lead of over two and a half seconds, behind the boats from the USA and the GDR battled for second place, at the finish the Americans had a lead of six hundredths of a second and received the silver medal.
His younger brother Charles Clapp won silver with eighth at the 1984 Olympic Games .
Web links
- Eugene Clapp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Eugene Clapp at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 341f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clapp, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clapp, Eugene Howard (full name), Clapp, Gene (first name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brookline , Massachusetts |