John Yallop

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John C. Yallop (born October 24, 1949 in Luton ) is a retired British rower who won an Olympic silver medal in figure eight in 1976 .

Athletic career

At the 1973 European Championships in Moscow, 1.98 m tall John Yallop took tenth place with Leonard Robertson in the two without a helmsman . At the 1974 World Championships in Lucerne, the eighth from the United States won ahead of the eighth from the United Kingdom, who 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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ World Championships in figure eight at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ final World Cup 1975 at worldrowing.com
  3. ↑ 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
personal data
SURNAME Yallop, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yallop, John C. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Luton