Joseph Wright (rower, 1906)
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Joseph Walter Harris Wright (born March 28, 1906 in Toronto , † June 7, 1981 ibid) was a Canadian rower .
Joseph Wright didn't begin rowing until 1924. In 1927 he reached the one in the final of the Diamond Sculls , the One competition at the Henley Royal Regatta , but was defeated by Robert Lee from Oxford. In 1928 Wright then won ahead of Lee after defeating his compatriot John Guest in the semifinals .
At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 Wright competed in singles and doubles. In the first run he defeated the Dutch Bert Gunther , in the intermediate run he was defeated by the Czech Josef Straka . Wright reached the quarterfinals with a victory in the hope run against the Italian Michelangelo Bernasconi , where he lost to the British Theodore Collet .
In a double scull, Wright and Guest defeated the boat from the Netherlands in the lead. In the interim they were defeated by the German boat with Horst Hoeck and Gerhard Voigt . After beating the French in the hope race, the Canadians met the Germans again in the quarter-finals and won this time. After a bye in the semifinals, they lost in the final against the US rowers Paul Costello and Charles McIlvaine .
In 1929 and 1930 Joseph Wright joined the Diamond Sculls again, but lost to Bert Gunther in 1929 and was eliminated in 1930 by the German Gerhard Boetzelen . At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Wright was the only participant not to reach the finals in a single.
In addition to rowing, Joseph Wright was also active with the Toronto Argonauts in Canadian football from 1924 to 1936 , and in 1933 he won the Gray Cup, the Canadian championship.
Joseph Wright's father Joseph Wright was an Olympic medalist with an eighth in 1904 and 1908 . Joseph Wright Jr. married the Swedish swimmer Martha Norelius in 1930 .
Web links
- Joseph Wright 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. 320-325
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Joseph Walter Harris (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7th 1981 |
| Place of death | Toronto |