Leonard Robertson

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Leonard "Lenny" David Robertson (born October 10, 1950 ) is a former British rower who won an Olympic silver medal in eighth in 1976 .

Athletic career

The 1.86 m tall Leonard Robertson took eighth place in the four without a helmsman at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 together with William Mason , Jim Clark 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 European Championships in Moscow in 1973, Leonard Robertson, together with John Yallop, took tenth place 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, 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 Robertson was the only remaining rowers from the eighth of the previous year. In the line-up of Leonard Robertson, Allan Whitwell , Henry Clay , William Woodward-Fischer , Phill Gregory , Gordon Rankine , Robert Milligan , Colin Seymour and helmsman Robert Lee , the eighth finished fifth at the World Championships in Amsterdam. Two years later, the British eighth finished sixth at the 1979 World Championships in Bled, with Leonard Robertson, Eric Sims , Mark Bathurst , Neil Christie , James Macleod , Gordon Rankine, Colin Seymour, John Roberts and helmsman Alan Inns . At the 1980 Olympic Games , Robertson, Roberts, Seymour, Rankine and Inns started in a four-man with a helmsman . After a second place behind the Spaniards in the preliminary run and a third place in the hope run, the British won the B final and finished seventh. Robertson's international career ended after the 1982 World Championships in Lucerne, where he and Gordon Rankine, Eric Sims and Chris Jones finished ninth in the four without a helmsman.

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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. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 776
personal data
SURNAME Robertson, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robertson, Leonard David (full name); Robertson, Lenny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1950