Terence Sanders

Terence Robert Beaumont Sanders (born June 2, 1901 in Charleville , County Cork , † April 6, 1985 in Dorking , Surrey ) was a British rower .

Terence Sanders had been to Eton with Charles Eley , James MacNabb and Robert Morrison rowed together. The helmsmanless four stayed together when the four moved to Trinity College in Cambridge. The four rowers won three times the Henley Royal Regatta from 1922 to 1924 and remained undefeated in those three years. Morrison and Sanders also rowed in the Boat Race for Cambridge in 1923 , but were subject to the Oxford boat. The four without a helmsman from Cambridge was one of the four boats that competed in this boat class at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, all four boats made it to the finals. The four Brits won by four seconds over the Canadians and the Swiss. As a member of the Leander Club , Sanders won with eight in Henley in 1929 .

After graduating, he stayed at the university as a lecturer in engineering. From 1928 to 1939, Sanders was honorary treasurer of the Cambridge University Rowing Club. In 1929 he published a book on the 100th anniversary of the Boat Race. In 1941 he moved to the Ministry of Supply , after the end of the war he became director of technical development. In 1950 he was awarded the Order of CBE , he left the army with the rank of colonel. Later he was a director at Buckland Sand & Silica Co .; from 1967 he took over representative offices in the county of Surrey.

Web links

• Terence Sanders in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

• Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 298-300