Stuart MacKenzie
Stuart Alexander MacKenzie (born April 5, 1937 in New South Wales ) is a former Australian rower who was twice European champion in single .
Athletic career
Before the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , MacKenzie ousted the almost twenty years older Mervyn Wood in the one and was nominated for the Australian Olympic team. Only four rowers qualified for the Olympic singles final: From the first semifinals the only 18-year-old Vyacheslav Ivanov from the Soviet Union and the Pole Teodor Kocerka , from the second semifinals the US rowers John B. Kelly junior and Stuart MacKenzie. Ivanov won the final with over five seconds ahead of MacKenzie, who in turn crossed the finish line four seconds ahead of Kelly.
Since rowing world championships were only introduced in 1962 and then only held every four years until 1974, rowers from overseas were also allowed to participate in European rowing championships . Stuart MacKenzie won in 1957 and 1958 in front of the German Klaus von Fersen and Vyacheslav Iwanow. From 1957 to 1962 MacKenzie won six times in a row at the Diamond Sculls, the singles competition of the Henley Royal Regatta , in 1959 he won both singles and doubles . In 1958 MacKenzie also won the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in a single . Towards the end of his career, MacKenzie no longer started for Australia, but for the United Kingdom, at the 1962 World Championships he won silver as a Briton behind Vyacheslav Ivanov.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Die Chronik II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 411 and p. 469, note 437.
Web links
- Stuart MacKenzie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European rowing championships in one
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacKenzie, Stuart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacKenzie, Stuart Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New South Wales |