Lorne Loomer

Lorne Kenneth Loomer (born March 11, 1937 in Victoria , British Columbia , † January 1, 2017 ) was a Canadian rower .

Lorne Loomer rowed in the eighth of the University of British Columbia with Donald Arnold , Archibald MacKinnon and Walter D'Hondt . The four rowers surprisingly qualified in the four without a helmsman for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In the final of the Olympic Regatta, the four Canadians won by over ten seconds over the boat from the United States.

At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958 , the Canadians won the title in eighth. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , the four Olympic champions from 1956 should also compete with the Canadian eighth, who won the silver medal. Loomer was replaced at short notice by David Anderson , instead started together with Keith Donald in a two-man without a helmsman and was eliminated in the reunion .

Loomer graduated from Pharmacy and International Relations and later worked as a rowing trainer, pharmacist and teacher of watercolor painting.

Web links

• Lorne Loomer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ This representation follows the representation in the Olympic database of SportsReference. In literature, such as in Volker Kluge : Summer Olympics. Die Chronik II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 are listed on p. 577 as a crew in the two-man Anderson and Donald and on p. 579 Loomer as a member of the eight-man.