Ferry, Edward

Edward Ferry was born on June 18, 1941 in Seattle , Washington .

In high school, he was seriously involved in athletics, played football, received a sports scholarship.

He was engaged in rowing while studying at Stanford University , was a member of the local Stanford Cardinal rowing team, and repeatedly participated in various student regattas. Without graduating from the university, he went to serve in the US Navy .

Since 1961, he was in the same crew with the experienced rower Conn Findlay , in particular in 1961 and 1962 they won the American national championship in double oars with the helmsman. Started at the World Championships in Lucerne , where he took fifth place in the steering deuces.

Ferry achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in the 1963 season, when he joined the main team of the American national team and attended the Pan American Games in São Paulo , from where he brought the gold dignity won in steering deuces.

Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . Together with Conn Findlay and steering Kent Mitchell in the finals, he beat all his rivals and thereby won the Olympic gold medal.

After the Tokyo Olympics, Edward Ferry no longer showed any significant results in rowing in the international arena ^[1] .

• Ed Ferry - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
• Edward Ferry - Profile on FISA Website
• Edward Ferry (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee