Norris Graham

Norris "Norey" James Graham (born October 25, 1906 in Portland , Oregon , † July 9, 1980 in Tuolumne City , California ) was an American rower .

The 1.66 m tall Graham was the helmsman of the eighth of the Golden Bears , the sports team at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1932 . The eighth won the championships of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association and also qualified for the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the run-up to the Olympic regatta, the eighth won by four seconds ahead of the boat from Canada. In the final, the Italian eighth, who was two tenths of a second behind the Californian boat at the finish, led the Canadians bronze.

Graham later ran a welding equipment company in Long Beach.

Web links

Norris Graham 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. 252-255

personal data
SURNAME	Graham, Norris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Graham, Norris James (full name); Graham, Norey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Portland , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1980
Place of death	Tuolumne City , California