James Flanagan (rower)

James Showers Flanagan or James Showers Flanigan (born August 3, 1884 in Philadelphia , † March 28, 1937 ibid) was an American rower . James Flanagan rowed for the Vesper Boat Club Philadelphia .

The eighth of the Vesper Boat Club had already won the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 . Four years later at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , the helmsman Louis Abell and the batsman John Exley sat again in the eight, the other seven rowers were new. In St. Louis, the eighth of the Vesper Boat Club met the eighth of the Argonaut Rowing Club from Toronto, the only 1904 participating boat that did not come from the United States. The Philadelphia team won by three boat lengths.

Flanagan rowed for the Vesper Boat Club for many years, often together with Harry DeBaecke . Flanagan ran a restaurant in Philadelphia.

literature

Karl Lennartz : The games of the III. 1904 Olympics in St. Louis . AGON Verlag Kassel 2004 ISBN 3-89784-259-9 (p. 204)

Web links

James Flanagan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ The notation Flanigan is used in the SportsReference Olympic database. This can also be found with Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . on page 152 and in earlier books by Volker Kluge. With Karl Lennartz the spelling Flanagan is used, also in 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 . on page 595.
↑ The Olympic database SportsReference states 1878. If a year of birth is given in the print sources used, it is 1884.

personal data
SURNAME	Flanagan, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flanagan, James Showers (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1937
Place of death	Philadelphia

[1] The notation Flanigan is used in the SportsReference Olympic database. This can also be found with Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . on page 152 and in earlier books by Volker Kluge. With Karl Lennartz the spelling Flanagan is used, also in 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 . on page 595.

[2] The Olympic database SportsReference states 1878. If a year of birth is given in the print sources used, it is 1884.