John Manning “Jack” Brink an American rower who played for the US national rowing team in the late 1920s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam in the classification of eights, winner and winner of many student regattas.
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| Height | 189 cm |
| The weight | 83 kg |
Biography
John Brink was born on September 16, 1908 in Winters , California .
He was engaged in rowing while studying at the University of California at Berkeley , was a member of the local California Golden Bears rowing team, and repeatedly participated in various student regattas.
The highest success in rowing at the international level was achieved in the 1928 season, when he joined the main team of the American national team and, thanks to a series of successful performances, was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam . In swinging eights with a steering, he successfully overcame all the preliminary stages and in the decisive final race was more than two seconds ahead of the main competitors of the British - thereby won the Olympic gold medal.
After graduating from university in 1930, he worked for several years as a manager at the Zellerbach Paper Company, after which he became general manager at California Fruit Exchange.
He was shot dead by a robber on May 19, 1934 during a business trip in southeast Texas , when he was traveling from Falfurrias to Harlingen by car. Along the way, Brink picked up a fellow traveler who voted on the road 16-year-old William Osborne, he shot him in the temple with a pistol and took him $ 70 [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Winters Man Slain in Texas , Woodland Daily Democrat (May 21, 1934), C. 1. Date of access August 25, 2016.
Links
- Jack Brink - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- John Brink - profile on the FISA website
- John Brink (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee