Harold Budd (rower)

Harold Budd (1964 in Amsterdam)

Harold Boyce Budd (born January 4, 1939 in Summit , New Jersey ) is a retired American rower .

Harold Budd, 1.91 m tall, graduated from Yale University in 1961 . He then studied for a year at the University of Cambridge, England . With the eighth from Cambridge, he won the Henley Royal Regatta in 1962 . Back in the United States, he joined the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia. At the 1964 Olympic Games , the Vesper Boat Club was the first club since 1904 to place the US eighth and not a university. The US eight was an outsider against the favored Germany eight. The two boats met in the first run and the Germany eight won with a lead of 0.28 seconds. In the final, the US boat won by over five seconds.

In 1965, Budd took part with the US eighth at the 1965 European Championships in Duisburg. Behind the Germany eight and the boat from the Soviet Union, the US eight won the bronze medal.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Harold Budd in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ European Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de

personal data
SURNAME	Budd, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Budd, Harold Boyce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	January 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Summit , New Jersey

[1] European Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de