Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh
Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh (born January 11, 1938 , † January 28, 1970 in Chertsey ) was a British rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1964.
Life
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the British four-man star without a helmsman in the line-up of John Russell , Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh, William L. Barry and John James . The British won their lead nine seconds ahead of the boat from the United States and qualified directly for the final. In the final, the Danes won by one second over the British, with the boat from the United States reaching the finish just under a second behind. In 1968 Wardell-Yerburgh won the single race at the Henley Royal Regatta .
The 1.89 m tall Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh was married to the fencer Janet Bewley Cathie , who competed three times in the Olympics. In 1970 Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident.
Web links
- Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 760
- ↑ 1960s Henley Regatta at thames.me.uk
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wardell-Yerburgh, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wardell-Yerburgh, Hugh Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1938 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1970 |
| Place of death | Chertsey |