Frederick Sheffield

Frederick "Fred" Sheffield (born February 26, 1902 in New York City , † May 8, 1971 in Wilton , Connecticut ) was an American rower .

The 1.78 m tall Sheffield played American football in his freshman year at Yale University , but then switched to rowing. In his senior year at college, he was in the eighth team running for the United States in the 1924 Paris Olympics . In the second run, the crew won ahead of the boats from Canada and the Netherlands. In the final, the British and the Italians competed as preliminary winners alongside the Americans, and the Canadians came as winners of the repechage. At the finish of the finals, the Americans had a lead of over 15 seconds over the Canadians, as in the preliminary run, the Italians received the bronze medal.

Sheffield was at Yale Law School from 1924 to 1927 and then became a lawyer in New York City. In addition to his law firm, Sheffield also volunteered. In 1940 he was the representative of the United States at the World's Fair in New York . From 1966 until his death, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Foundation .

Web links

• Frederick Sheffield in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

• Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 302–305