Leslie Wormwald

Leslie Graham Wormwald (also Wormald ) ( August 19, 1890 in Maidenhead , United Kingdom - July 10, 1965 in London ) was a British rower who took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , Sweden .

Wormwald was educated at Eton College . At this school he could only row in the second team. During his studies at Magdalen College of Oxford University , he corrected himself. In 1910 he rowed in the Magdelene College Boat, which, as Head of the River, ended the Eights Week races between the colleges of Oxford University. This boat won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1910 and repeated this success the following year. In 1911, 1912 and 1913 he won the Boat Race with the Oxford University team . Wormwald was a member of the Leander Club . With the team of the Leander Club he won the gold medal in eighth place at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Wormwald was a soldier in the First World War . In 1918 he was awarded a Military Cross in France .

Wormwald moved to Spain after his retirement . He died at the Hyde Park Hotel in London (now called Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London ) during a visit to the UK .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz : The games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-364-6 .

Web links

• Leslie Wormwald in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Wormald is the spelling in the SportsReference Olympic database. Both Volker Kluge (p. 347) and Karl Lennartz (p. 233) use the Wormwald spelling.