Guy Nickalls

Guy Nickalls (around 1915)

Guy Nickalls (born November 13, 1866 in Sutton , London , † July 8, 1935 in Leeds ) was a British rower and Olympic champion in eight .

Guy Nickalls trained at Eton and then Magdalen College , Oxford. He rowed five times for Oxford in the Boat Race from 1987 to 1991 and won in 1990 and 1991.

At the Henley Royal Regatta he won 68 of the 81 races in which he participated. He won the final four times with the eighth, seven times with the four without a helmsman , six times with the two without a helmsman and five times with the one . He mostly rowed in the boats of Magdalen College or the Leander Club , but he also won for the London Rowing Club and the Formosa Boat Club. He won several times together with his brother Vivian Nickalls, for example from 1894 to 1896 in two without a helmsman.

Guy Nickalls was a member of the Leander Club crew at the 1908 Henley Olympic Regatta , which defeated the Belgian eighth in the final. At 41 years and 160 days, Nickalls was the oldest active rower to ever win an Olympic gold medal; only the helmsman Robert Zimonyi was older when he won the Olympic Games in 1964.

During the First World War , Guy Nickalls was actually too old to serve in the army. Nevertheless, he volunteered and served as an instructor with the Royal Engineers . Nickalls was a stockbroker in civilian life. In the 1920s, his son Guy Oliver Nickalls was a successful rower. Guy Nickalls died in a traffic accident in 1935 while on his annual fishing trip to Scotland.

Web links

Guy Nickalls in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original )

literature

Karl Lennartz : Olympic Games 1908 in London. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-112-3 , pp. 216-217.

References and footnotes

^ Winner list of the Henley Royal Regatta from 1839 to 1939 ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 , p. 197.

personal data
SURNAME	Nickalls, guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British rower
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sutton , London
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1935
Place of death	Leeds

[1] Winner list of the Henley Royal Regatta from 1839 to 1939 ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 , p. 197.