Owen Churchill

Owen Churchill
Nationality:	United States
Birthday:	March 8, 1896
Place of birth:	los Angeles
Date of death:	November 12, 1985
Place of death:	los Angeles
Society:	South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club
Boat classes:	8 meter class
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Los Angeles 1932 8 meter class

Owen Porter Churchill (born March 8, 1896 in Los Angeles , † November 12, 1985 there ) was an American sailor .

successes

Owen Churchill, who sailed for the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club , took sixth place as the skipper of the Babe on his Olympic debut in Amsterdam in 1928 in the 8-meter class . In 1932 he was in Los Angeles at the Olympic Games in the 8-meter class Olympic champion . He was the skipper of Angelita , which won all four races, taking first place ahead of the only other boat, the Santa Maria from Canada. In addition to Churchill, the crew members Pierpont Davis , John Biby , Alphonse Burnand , Karl Dorsey , Thomas Webster , Kenneth Carey , Robert Sutton , John Huettner , Alan Morgan , Richard Moore and his nephew William Cooper received the gold medal. In the eliminations for the Games, Pierpont Davis was only second as skipper behind Owen Churchill, who was Davis' brother-in-law. However, Churchill took him and all of his crew members to the games as substitutes and also used them in individual races. Four years later, Churchill was again skipper of the Angelita at the Olympic Games in Berlin , but did not get past tenth and last place in the regatta taking place in the Olympic harbor in Düsternbrook in Kiel . The crew included his daughter Angelita Churchill .

Churchill graduated from Stanford University in 1919 , where Alphonse Burnand also studied. The two were close friends and not only often sailed together, but also worked together as fruit and vegetable traders in the San Joaquin Valley .

Web links

• Owen Churchill in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )