Lewis Clive

This article deals with the British rower; for the British politician, see Clive Lewis .

Lewis Clive (born September 8, 1910 in Tooting , London , † July 28, 1938 in Gandesa , Tarragona province ) was a British rower .

Lewis Clive began rowing at Eton College . As a student at the University of Oxford , he was a victorious eighth in the 1931 Boat Race . At the Henley Royal Regatta , Clive won the two-man competition with Hugh Edwards in 1931 and 1932 . Clive and Edwards also competed in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . There they won their prelim with three seconds ahead of Cyril Stiles and Frederick Thompson from New Zealand. After the New Zealanders had also qualified for the final via the repechage, the two boats fought for the gold medal. Clive and Edwards won the final by two seconds, six seconds behind the New Zealanders the Polish two won the bronze medal.

Lewis Clive's father Percy was as a lieutenant colonel of the Grenadier Guards in the First World War fallen. Lewis Clive was active for the Labor Party in Kensington and wrote for the Fabian Society . During the Spanish Civil War , Clive joined the Republican Army. He fell in the Battle of the Ebro .

Web links

• Lewis Clive in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

• Karl Lennartz , Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2015 ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 pp. 246–248