Gregory Springer
Gregory Thomas Springer (born February 13, 1961 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles ) is a former rower from the United States, who was 1984 Olympic runner-up in the four-man team .
Athletic career
The 1.95 m tall Gregory Springer began rowing at the University of California College , Irvine . In 1983 he graduated there in physics. Already in 1981 he won the silver medal with the eighth at the Match des Seniors, the forerunner competition of the U23 world championships . At the Pan American Games in 1983 , he won the title in four-man with helmsman.
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Thomas Kiefer , Gregory Springer, Michael Bach , Edward Ives and helmsman John Stillings finished second behind the British and second behind the New Zealanders in the hope run. In the final, the British won with a one-and-a-half second lead over the Americans, who for their part were over three seconds ahead of the third-placed New Zealanders. At the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel , Springer took fifth place in the controlled foursome. The following year he entered the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham in the one and finished ninth. In 1988 Springer was nominated as a substitute for the Olympic team. Four years later he started at the 1992 Olympics together with Jon Smith in double sculls , the two finished ninth.
Springer later became a rancher in South Texas.
Web links
- Gregory Springer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Gregory Springer 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. 1017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Springer, Gregory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Springer, Gregory Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodland Hills , Los Angeles |