Ted Nash (rower)

Theodore "Ted" Allison Nash II (born October 29, 1932 in Melrose , Massachusetts ) is a retired American rower and two-time Olympic medalist.

Ted Nash began his rowing career in Boston, but then moved to the University of Washington , where he rowed for the University Team Huskies and for the Lake Washington Rowing Club . The 1.93 m tall Nash won the Pan American Games in 1959 and 1963 . At the 1960 Olympic Games , the American four-man without a helmsman won with Arthur Ayrault , Ted Nash, John Sayre and Richard Wailes in front of the boats from Italy and the Soviet Union. Four years later, Nash was together with Geoffrey Picard , Richard Lyon and Theodore Mittet also at the Olympic Games in 1964 and won the bronze medal behind the Danes and British.

From 1965 Nash looked after the freshmen boat of the University of Pennsylvania , in 1969 he took over the first team. In his coaching career, he looked after forty rowers who made it to the Olympics. He looked after nine boats at the Olympic Games or the Pan American Games. Nash was the founder of the American Women's Rowing Organization and a member of the US Committee for Women's Olympic Rowing.

Web links

• Ted Nash in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )