Frank Greer
Frank Bartholomew Greer (born February 26, 1879 in East Boston , Massachusetts , † May 7, 1943 in Winthrop , Massachusetts) was an American rower .
Frank Greer rowed for the East Boston Amateur Athletic Boat Club . He was US champion in single from 1903 to 1905 and again in 1908 and Canadian champion from 1903 to 1905.
At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , four rowers from the United States started in a single; the winner of the Henley Royal Regatta Louis Scholes from Canada had entered but did not compete. On the 1.5 mile route, Greer won in 10: 08.5 minutes by two boat lengths over James Juvenal .
After his career, Greer was a row coach in Detroit for a few years, but then returned to Boston and was sheriff of the Suffolk County Jail in Boston for many years .
literature
- Karl Lennartz : The games of the III. 1904 Olympics in St. Louis . AGON Verlag Kassel 2004 ISBN 3-89784-259-9 (p. 200f)
Web links
- Frank Greer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
1900: Hermann Barrelet (FRA) | 1904: Frank Greer (USA) | Interludes 1906: Gaston Delaplane (FRA) | 1908: Harry Blackstaffe (GBR) | 1912: William Kinnear (GBR) | 1920: John B. Kelly senior (USA) | 1924: Jack Beresford (GBR) | 1928, 1932: Henry Pearce (AUS) | 1936: Gustav Schäfer (GER) | 1948: Mervyn Wood (AUS) | 1952: Yuri Tyukalov (URS) | 1956, 1960, 1964: Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS) | 1968: Jan Wienese (NED) | 1972: Yuri Malyshev (URS) | 1976, 1980, 1984: Pertti Karppinen (FIN) | 1988, 1992: Thomas Lange (GDR) | 1996: Xeno Müller (SUI) | 2000: Rob Waddell (NZL) | 2004, 2008: Olaf Tufte (NOR) | 2012, 2016: Mahé Drysdale (NZL)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greer, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greer, Frank Bartholomew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1943 |
| Place of death | Winthrop, Massachusetts |