Richard Wailes

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Olympic Summer Games
gold 1956 Melbourne Eighth
gold 1960 Rome Foursome without a helmsman

Richard Donald "Rusty" Wailes (born March 21, 1926 in Seattle ; † October 11, 2002 ibid) was an American rower.

Wailes is one of the few American rowers to have won two gold medals. He won his first eighth at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1958 he graduated from Yale and the following year he won the Pan American Games with Ted Nash , John Sayre and Jay Hall in the four-man without a helmsman. The following year he took part with almost the same team, only Hall was replaced by Dan Ayrault , in the Olympic Games in Rome and won the gold medal again.

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SURNAME Wailes, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wailes, Richard Donald (full name); Wailes, Rusty (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2002
Place of death Seattle