James Workman

James "Jim" Theodore Workman (* thirtieth April 1908 in Woodward , Oklahoma , † 15. October 1983 in Orange County , California ) was an American rower .

James Workman, 1.92 m tall, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , and was a member of the Golden Bears' rowing team . At the 1928 Olympic Games , the eighth of the Golden Bears represented the United States in the line-up of Marvin Stalder , John Brinck , Francis Frederick , William Thompson , William Dally , James Workman, Hubert Caldwell , Peter Donlon and helmsman Donald Blessing . The US rowers won all five races, in the final they defeated the British eighth. In doing so, they established a tradition of the rowing team of the Golden Bears , which also placed eighth in the Olympic final in 1932 and 1948 .

Workman went to the United States Army after graduating and in 1947, after the split of the armed forces, joined the newly established United States Air Force . When he retired, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force.

Web links

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

literature

Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the IX. 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and the II Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-89784-411-7 . Pp. 335-340

personal data
SURNAME	Workman, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Workman, James Theodore; Workman, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woodward , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1983
Place of death	Orange County , California