Thomas Price (rower)

Thomas "Tom" Steele Price (born May 28, 1933 in Long Branch , New Jersey ) is a former American rower and Olympic champion.

Price began rowing as a student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick , New Jersey. After three months of rowing practice, he and Charles Logg formed a two-man without a helmsman , three months later the two competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinkion. In the first run, the two Americans reached the finish line fourth and last behind the Swiss, British and Belgians. Apparently the prelims were not equally strong, because the Swiss and the British reached the final as winners of the semi-finals, while the Belgians and the Americans each won two hope runs and also qualified for the final. In the final, the French were the only boat that did not start in the first run; they finished fifth in the final. The two American juniors won the gold medal ahead of the Belgians, Swiss and British.

Logg and Price also won the title at the 1955 Pan American Games . In 1956, the two could not prevail in the US trials against James Fifer and Duvall Hecht , who were their successors as Olympic champions in two-man.

literature

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

Web links

• Thomas Price in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )