Ted Murphy

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Edward "Ted" B. Murphy (born October 30, 1971 in West Newton , Massachusetts ) is a former rower from the United States , who was second in the 1994 World Championship in four with helmsman and second in the 2000 Olympic second in two without helmsman .

Athletic career

Ted Murphy took part in 1993 in a four-man with helmsman at the World Championships in Račice u Štětí and finished eighth. The following year , the four-man from Romania won the World Championships in Indianapolis , with Bill Cooper , Adam Holland , Ted Murphy, Chris Swan and helmsman Pete Cipollone winning the silver medal 0.29 seconds behind . At the 1995 World Championships , Murphy rowed the four without a helmsman to seventh place. In the 1996 Olympic season, Murphy was a US eight . At the Olympic Games in Atlanta , the eighth finished with Douglas Burden , Bob Kaehler , Porter Collins , Ted Murphy, Jamie Koven , Jon Brown , Donald Smith , Fred Honebein and helmsman Steven Segaloff in fifth place, almost three seconds behind the third-placed Russians. In 1997 Murphy rowed with Adam Holland in two without a helmsman. At the world championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette , the two won the bronze medal behind the French Michel Andrieux and Jean-Christophe Rolland and the Italians Lorenzo Carboncini and Mattia Trombetta .

After a two year hiatus, Murphy returned in 2000. At the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July 2000, Murphy took third place with eighth, in which Sebastian Bea also sat. Bea and Murphy switched to helmless twos for the Sydney Olympics . After third places in the preliminary and semi-finals, the two won the silver medal in the final, just under a second behind the French Andrieux and Rolland.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 838f
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Edward B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH West Newton , Massachusetts