John Pritchard
boden
I'm told that an old school friend of mine, John Pritchard, won an
Olympic Silver medal for rowing at the 1980 Olympics. Can anyone give
me some details on this?
I know it sounds a strange request, but I've been living in Australia
for 20+ years and kind of lost touch with UK events.
Cheers
boden
Anu Dudhia
> I'm told that an old school friend of mine, John Pritchard, won an
> Olympic Silver medal for rowing at the 1980 Olympics. Can anyone give
> me some details on this?
Sounds possible. The GB VIII won the Olympic Silver medal at the 1980
Olympics in Moscow
and John Pritchard was a GB international about that time (later went on
to row for Cambridge in the Boat Race). Unfortunately my ARA almanack
only lists internationals back to 1991 so I'd have to dig up an old copy
to check whether John Pritchard was in that crew.
David Biddulph usually knows all these things by heart, though ...
Stephen Sloan
> Can someone help me verify this.
>
> I'm told that an old school friend of mine, John Pritchard, won an
> Olympic Silver medal for rowing at the 1980 Olympics. Can anyone give
> me some details on this?
Yes, he won silver in the GB Eight at the Moscow Olympics. Full details
here: http://www.worldrowing.org/results/race_details.sps?raceID=16019
Now on a similar but rather more random note, does anyone know the order
of the East German Eight that won? The names are on the site, but who sat
in what seat?
Cheers
S
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Steve Fowler
He did indeed. I think he also rowed in LA in 84 in the eight again
(did it medal, anyone?). He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in
84?, 85 and 86 (winning in the last year), won the Grand at henley
more than once. Now runs a sort of headhunter-type firm in London and
is a generally larger-than-life genial character. Can give you his
email address if you wish to email me for it.
Steve Fowler
John Hill
and ask him why he came second ;-)
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Walter Martindale
Steve Fowler wrote:
First 4 in LA in the Men's 8+ were
Canada
USA
Australia
New Zealand
Watched from shoreline, but I forget the rest.
France, Chile, and Brits were the other crews in the final (I think) - 7 boats that year due to some suspected
sabotage to an oarlock on the French 8+ during semi's.
Walter
David Biddulph
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> On 30 Apr 2002, boden wrote:
>
> > Can someone help me verify this.
> >
> > I'm told that an old school friend of mine, John Pritchard, won an
> > Olympic Silver medal for rowing at the 1980 Olympics. Can anyone
give
> > me some details on this?
>
> Yes, he won silver in the GB Eight at the Moscow Olympics. Full
details
> here:
http://www.worldrowing.org/results/race_details.sps?raceID=16019
>
> Now on a similar but rather more random note, does anyone know the
order
> of the East German Eight that won? The names are on the site, but who
sat
> in what seat?
Try:
Bernd Krauss, Hans Peter Koppe, Ulrich Kons, Jörg Friedrich,
Jens Doberschutz, Ulrich Karnatz, Uwe Dühring, Bernd Höing,
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig
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David Biddulph
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> Steve Fowler wrote:
>
> > bodenl...@yahoo.com.au (boden) wrote in message
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> > > Can someone help me verify this.
> > >
> > > I'm told that an old school friend of mine, John Pritchard, won an
> > > Olympic Silver medal for rowing at the 1980 Olympics. Can anyone
give
> > > me some details on this?
> > >
> > > I know it sounds a strange request, but I've been living in
Australia
> > > for 20+ years and kind of lost touch with UK events.
> > He did indeed. I think he also rowed in LA in 84 in the eight again
> > (did it medal, anyone?). He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in
> > 84?, 85 and 86 (winning in the last year), won the Grand at henley
> > more than once. Now runs a sort of headhunter-type firm in London
and
> > is a generally larger-than-life genial character. Can give you his
> > email address if you wish to email me for it.
> First 4 in LA in the Men's 8+ were
> Canada
> USA
> Australia
> New Zealand
> Watched from shoreline, but I forget the rest.
> France, Chile, and Brits were the other crews in the final (I think) -
7 boats that year due to some suspected
> sabotage to an oarlock on the French 8+ during semi's.
GB were 5th, France 6th, Chile 7th
David Biddulph
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Thank you, Anu.
Yes, John was in that that crew, as were two other members of the Skiff
Club, Malcolm McGowan and Richard Stanhope. The evening down at the
Skiff Club immediately after their return was a memorable celebration
(even by SC standards). I think some members are still nursing the
headaches. Pritch's medal was worn for most of the evening by his
erstwhile skiffing partner (now a stalwart member of Vesta RC), who had
taught Pritch all he knew & thus contributed to his success.
Quite a contrast from John's earlier rowing career not many years
previously, when my Kingston crew always used to reckon they'd have a
relatively easy race if the opposition was a Thames RC crew with "the
fat man" in the middle of the boat!
As you say, Pritch went on to Cambridge, and his friends were all
convinced that if talking could win boat races, a Cambridge victory was
assured. The confidence which John inspired in his 1986 crew had the
desired result.
James Elder
Yes he did.
He joined Thames RC as a junior. Apparently his dad told him to take
up a sport to keep him out of trouble; John tentatively chose rowing
and dad dropped him outside the first club they passed. At Thames the
redoubtable Alan Hawes took John under his wing and the rest is
history...
On training camp last week I heard some good stories about him from a
couple of his contemporaries, who are now Thames coaches.
James
Ken Higgs
James Elder wrote:
Well thank you all for those interesting posts, most informative.
As has been said, he is a larger than life character.
I went to St Clement Danes School with John (69-76), the school did have a bit of a rowing tradition (used
facilities at Barn Elms, teacher involved was Graeme Mulcahy, a decent rower himself, I believe), but John was
not part of the rowing scene. In fact he was relatively unsporty, though I believe he was into boxing at one
stage (he certainly had the size of a heavyweight, even in those days). In fact he wasn't particularly academic
either, so imagine my surprise to learn that he went on to study at Cambridge in addition to his Olympic medal.
The boy done good.
I shall contact Steve Fowler for his email address, thanks.
Cheers
Boden
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