Stanley Cwiklinski

Stanley Cwiklinski (1964 in Amsterdam)

Stanley "Stan" Francis Cwiklinski (born July 25, 1943 in New Orleans ) is a former American rower .

Stanley Cwiklinski, 1.89 m tall, rowed at LaSalle College and first belonged to the Fairmount Rowing Association in Philadelphia. In 1963 he joined the Vesper Boat Club . At the 1964 Olympic Games , the Vesper Boat Club was the first club since 1904 to place the US eighth and not a university. The US eight was an outsider against the favored Germany eight . The two boats met in the first run and the Germany eight won with a lead of 0.28 seconds. In the final, the US boat won by over five seconds.

In 1965 Cwiklinski took part in the US eighth at the 1965 European Championships in Duisburg. Behind the Germany eight and the boat from the Soviet Union, the US eight won the bronze medal. Cwiklinski later served as an officer in the United States Navy .

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Stanley Cwiklinski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ European Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de

personal data
SURNAME	Cwiklinski, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cwiklinski, Stanley Francis (full name); Cwiklinski, Stan (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans

[1] European Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de