Marcus Blake "Mark" Schneider ( born Marcus Blake "Marc" Schneider ; born , ) is an American rower who played for the US national rowing team in the second half of the 1990s years. Bronze medalist of the Atlanta Summer Olympics , two-time champion of the Pan American Games in Winnipeg , winner and medalist of many national regattas.
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| Club | Princeton Training Center |
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| Height | 187 cm |
| The weight | 72 kg |
Biography
Mark Schneider was born on April 28, 1973 in Lubbock , Texas .
He attended high school in Everett , Washington , then entered the University of Washington . At the same time he studied rowing, was a member of a university rowing team, and took part in various student regattas several times. He later trained at the Princeton Training Center in New Jersey [1] .
He made his debut in rowing at the adult international level in the 1995 season, when he entered the main squad of the American national team and, in the standings of swinging handless fours of light weight, made the World Championships in Tampere - he managed to qualify here only in the consolation final B and was located in the final protocol of competitions at seventh line.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1996 1996 Summer Home Olympics in Atlanta . As part of the crew, which also included rowers Jeff Pfendtner , David Collins and William Karlucci , in the lightweight four- wheelless program, he reached the finish line third behind the teams from Denmark and Canada - thereby winning the bronze Olympic medal.
After the Atlanta Olympics, Schneider remained in the US rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1999 at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, he won in two disciplines at once: in the steering fours and in the lightweight four-wheelless. In addition, he performed at the world championship in St. Catharines , where he took the final ninth place in the light non-steering fours.
Being among the leaders of the American national team, successfully passed the selection for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . However, this time I could not get into the number of winners, in the program of wheelless fours of light weight I finished sixth. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end his sports career.
Notes
- ↑ Our Olympic hopefuls, The Seattle Times (September 10, 2000), S. K16.
Links
- Mark Schneider - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Mark Schneider - profile on the FISA website
- Mark Schneider (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee