Michael Forgeron

Michael Forgeron as Olympic champion in 1992

Michael Joseph Forgeron (born January 24, 1966 in Main-à-Dieu , Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian rower .

The 1.99 m tall Forgeron began rowing while studying at the University of Western Ontario . At the Pan American Games in 1991 he started for the first time in the national team: he won bronze with the eighth and together with Steve Frish silver in the two-man without a helmsman . At the 1992 Olympic Regatta , Forgeron rowed eighth, replacing Don Telfer ; the rest of the crew was unchanged from winning the silver medal at the 1991 World Championships . In Barcelona, ​​the Canadians won the first heat and finished second behind the Romanians in the first semi-final. In the final, the Canadians won with fourteen hundredths of a second ahead of the Romanians, the Germany eighth received the bronze medal.

In 1993 Forgeron finished fourth at the World Championships with the Canadian four without a helmsman , and the following year he was seventh. In 1994, the Canadian foursome also won the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in London , Ontario, which were held outside the actual 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria , British Columbia. At the 1995 World Championships , Forgeron competed with Todd Hallett in double sculls and finished eighth, at the 1996 Olympic Games the two won the B-final and finished seventh overall.

Forgeron retired from competitive sports after the Olympics and began his professional career in sales.

Web links

• Michael Forgeron in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Michael Forgeron at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )