John Brinck

John "Jack" Manning Brinck (born September 16, 1908 in Winters , California , † May 19, 1934 in Falfurrias , Texas ) was an American rower .

1.89 m tall John Brinck graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , and was a member of the rowing team on the University Sports Team, Golden Bears . 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 .

After graduating in 1930, Brinck initially worked for a paper mill and then moved to California Fruit Exchange as managing director . He was robbed and shot dead by a 16-year-old hitchhiker while on a business trip.

Web links

• John Brinck 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