Samuel Patten

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Samuel "Sam" Patten (born May 23, 1963 ) is a former Australian rower . In 1984 he won the Olympic bronze medal with the Australian eighth .

Athletic career

The 1.94 m tall Samuel Patten took fourth place at the Junior World Championships in 1981 with the four-man with helmsman .

In 1983 Patten was a member of the Australian eight. The aft rowed in the cast Samuel Patten, Bruce Keynes , Ian Edmunds , David Doyle , James Battersby , Timothy Willoughby , Ion Popa , John Quigley and helmsman Gavin Thredgold and won at the world championships in Duisburg the bronze medal behind the boats from New Zealand and from the GDR.

In the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , the Australian eighth competed with Craig Muller , Clyde Hefer , Samuel Patten, Timothy Willoughby, Ian Edmunds, James Battersby, Ion Popa, Stephen Evans and Gavin Thredgold and won bronze behind the boats from Canada and from the United States.

Three years later, the Australian eighth rowed at the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen with the cast Samuel Patten, Malcolm Batten , Hamish McGlashan , Mike McKay , Andrew Cooper , James Tomkins , Mark Doyle , Stephen Evans and Dale Caterson . Behind the boats from the United States, Germany and Italy, the Australians finished fourth, just 0.36 seconds behind the Italians.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Samuel Patten and Malcolm Batten formed a pair without a helmsman . After a fourth place in the preliminaries, the two retired as fourth in the repechage.

At the 1990 World Championships in Tasmania, Nicholas Green , Mike McKay, Samuel Patten and James Tomkins rowed in four without a helmsman and won the world title ahead of the Dutch and the boat from the GDR.

In 1992, Patten came back to eighth place at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Simon Spriggs , Peter Murphy , Wayne Diplock , Jaime Fernandez , Ben Dodwell , Samuel Patten, Boden Hanson , Robert Scott and helmsman David Colvin took second place behind the boat from the United States. After finishing third in the semifinals, the Australians finished fifth in the final.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ aft final 1987 at worldrowing.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 179f
  3. ↑ World championships in four without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 506
personal data
SURNAME Patten, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patten, Sam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1963