Ewart Horsfall

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Ewart Horsfall (ca.1910)

Ewart Douglas Horsfall (born May 24, 1892 in Liverpool , † February 1, 1974 in Devizes ) was a British rower who won two Olympic medals.

After attending Eton College , Ewart Horsfall moved to Oxford at Magdalen College in 1911 . At the end of March 1912, Horsfall was part of the victorious Oxford team in the Boat Race against the team from the University of Cambridge . As a member of the Leander Club , he was the youngest member of the figure eight that the club sent to Stockholm for the 1912 Olympic Games . The New College of Oxford presented the second British aft so that rowers from the victorious boat Boat Race in two British boats rowed. The eighth of the Leander Club won in the preliminary round against the eighth of the Toronto Argonauts and in the quarterfinals against the Sydney Rowing Club . After the semi-final victory over the eighth of the Berlin rowing club in 1876 , the boat of the Leander Club met the boat of New College in the final and won by three and a half seconds.

In 1913 Horsfall won the Boat Race again with Oxford, and in 1914 his boat lost to Cambridge. In addition to his victories in the Boat Race, Horsfall won the Grand Challenge Cup four times at the Henley Royal Regatta , including three times as a batsman . In the First World War Horsfall was first in the Rifle Brigade , but later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps . In 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross des Heeres and in 1918 the Distinguished Flying Cross . After the war, Horsfall left the Royal Air Force as a Squadron Leader (equivalent to the major ) and returned to Oxford.

At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 Horsfall reached the Olympic final again with the eighth of the Leander Club, but this time lost by 0.8 seconds to the eighth from the United States. In 1948, Ewart Horsfall was the manager of the British rowing team at the London Olympics .

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literature

  • Karl Lennartz : The games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2009 ISBN 978-3-89784-364-6 pp. 232-235
  • Karl Lennartz, Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the VII Olympiad 1920 in Antwerp . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2013 ISBN 978-3-89784-402-5 pp. 232-234
personal data
SURNAME Horsfall, Ewart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horsfall, Ewart Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1974
Place of death Devizes