Seán Drea
Seán Drea 
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| Full name | Seán Joseph Drea |
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 Ireland
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| birthday | March 3, 1947 |
| place of birth | Ireland |
| size | 190 cm |
| Weight | 98 kg |
| Career | |
| discipline | Row , skull |
| society | Fairmount RA, Neptune RC |
| status | resigned |
Seán Joseph Drea (born March 3, 1947 ) is a former Irish rower who competed in the one .
Seán Drea, who started for the Dublin Neptune Rowing Club , finished fifth in the semifinals of the 1972 Olympic Games . With his victory in the B final, he reached seventh place overall. At the European Rowing Championships in 1973 Drea reached the A-final and was sixth. Drea was more successful in the Diamond Sculls , the single competition at the Henley Royal Regatta . He won this competition three times in a row from 1973 to 1975. At the rowing world championships in 1975 the Irishman received the silver medal between the Germans Peter-Michael Kolbe from the FRG and Martin Winter from the GDR.
At the 1976 Olympic Games , Kolbe won the first run ahead of Drea and Joachim Dreifke from the GDR, while the Finn Pertti Karppinen was fourth in the repechage . After Karppinen won the repechage, he met Seán Drea again in the semifinals. Drea won ahead of the Soviet rower Mikola Dowgan and Karppinen. In the final, Karppinen won ahead of Kolbe and Dreifke, while Drea was fourth four and a half seconds behind Dreifke.
Web links
- Seán Drea in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Seán Drea at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seán Drea Honored at Henley Royal Regatta 2015 (accessed November 21, 2015)
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 556.
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| SURNAME | Drea, Seán |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drea, Seán Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1947 |