James MacNabb

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James Alexander MacNabb (born December 26, 1901 in Keighley , † April 6, 1990 in London ) was a British rower .

James MacNabb had been to Eton with Charles Eley , Robert Morrison and Terence Sanders rowed together. The helmsmanless four stayed together when the four moved to Trinity College in Cambridge. The four rowers won three times the Henley Royal Regatta from 1922 to 1924 and remained undefeated in those three years. Eley and MacNabb also won in Henley in 1924 in two without a helmsman , after they had already won the 1924 Boat Race with the Cambridge crew against Oxford. At the Olympic Games in 1924 , all four registered boats reached the final in a four-man without a helmsman, the four British won with a four-second lead over the Canadians and the Swiss.

MacNabb remained connected to rowing after his active sports career. He was treasurer of the British Amateur Rowing Association and treasurer of the Leander Club for over twenty years . From 1931 to 1933 he coached the Cambridge crew in the Boat Race, from 1949 to 1951 he coached the Oxford crew. During the Second World War he was the commander of an artillery regiment in Burma. MacNabb was professionally involved in non-profit housing construction, and in 1972 he was awarded the OBE medal for his work at the Peabody Trust .

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  • Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 298-300