Hugh Foley

Hugh Foley, 1964

Hugh Miller Foley (born March 3, 1944 in Seattle ) is a former American rower .

Foley began rowing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, but then moved to LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where he joined the Vesper Boat Club . At the 1964 Olympic Games , the Vesper Boat Club was the first club 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. At the Pan American Games in 1967 , Foley won in a four-man with helmsman , with the boat with William Stowe and helmsman Robert Zimonyi, two other Olympic champions from 1964. In the 1970s, Hugh Foley was a rowing coach at Boston University, later he worked as a programmer.

literature

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

Web links

• Hugh Foley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )