Jim Clark (rower)

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Richard James "Jim" Scott Clark (born July 15, 1950 ) is a retired British rower who won an Olympic silver medal in eighth in 1976 .

Athletic career

The 1.90 m tall Jim Clark took eighth place in the four without a helmsman at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 together with William Mason , Leonard Robertson and Frederick Smallbone . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Mason, Clark, Robertson and Smallbone came in second behind the boat from the GDR and in front of the boat from the FRG. After a victory in the repechage, the British rowed to fourth place in the semifinals and then won the B final, placing them seventh overall. At the 1974 World Championships in Lucerne, the eighth from the United States won ahead of the eighth from the United Kingdom, which was made up of Frederick Smallbone, John Yallop , Timothy Crooks , Hugh Matheson , David Maxwell , Jim Clark, William Mason, Leonard Robertson and Steuermann Patrick Sweeney took over. This was the first ever World Championship medal for a British men's eighth.

In 1975 Mason, Clark, Robertson and Yallop rowed at the World Championships in Nottingham in the four-man without a helmsman and finished fourth, over five seconds behind the third-placed Romanians. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the British eighth started with Richard Lester , John Yallop, Timothy Crooks, Hugh Matheson, David Maxwell, Jim Clark, Frederick Smallbone, Leonard Robertson and Patrick Sweeney. In the run-up, the British took second place, almost five seconds behind the eighth from the GDR. With a victory in the repechage, the British reached the final. In the final, the eighth from the GDR won two and a half seconds ahead of the British, who in turn had two and a half seconds ahead of the third-placed New Zealanders.

In 1977 Clark formed a two-man without a helmsman with John Roberts . At the 1977 World Championships in Amsterdam, the British won the silver medal behind Alexander Kulagin and Vitaly Jelissejew from the Soviet Union. The following year, the brothers Bernd and Jörg Landvoigt from the GDR won the 1978 World Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, ahead of Jim Clark and John Roberts. In 1979 Clark switched to the double scull to Christopher Baillieu . At the 1979 World Championships in Bled, Clark and Baillieu took fourth place behind the boats from Norway, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. In the following year at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 Clark and Baillieu won the run-up to the Poles, the Spaniards and the double scull from Czechoslovakia. In the final, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the Yugoslavs and the Czechoslovaks, the British came fourth two seconds behind the Czechoslovaks. Clark finished tenth in the world championship in 1981 in the four-man without a helmsman and in the world championships in 1982 in eighth place with the eighth.

Jim Clark worked as a trainer during his career and later became a teacher. He is married to Linda Clark , who took part in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics as a rower.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 340
  2. ↑ World Championships in figure eight at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ final World Cup 1975 at worldrowing.com
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 560
  5. ↑ final in double sculls at worldrowing.com
  6. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 773f
  7. ↑ Retrieved January 17, 2020, has the date of birth of James Scott Clark and three results
  8. ↑ Retrieved January 17, 2020, all results from this James Clark except 2007 belong to Jim Clark
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Richard James Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1950