Adam Creek ( born Adam Kreek ; born , ) is a Canadian rower who played for the Canadian rowing team from 2001-2008. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing , three-time world champion, three-time winner of the Grand Challenge Cup of the Royal Regatta Henley , winner of six stages of the World Cup, multiple winner of national championships, many student regattas in Canada and the USA.
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| Growth | 193 cm |
| Weight | 91 kg |
Biography
Adam Creek was born on December 2, 1980 in the city of London , Ontario . The grandson of the famous Estonian athlete Alexander Crick , the European champion in 1938 in the shot put, who emigrated to Canada in the 1950s [1] .
He began to engage in rowing in 1996, was trained at the local club of the same name "London". Having entered the Victorian University , he joined the Victoria Wykes University rowing team, and repeatedly participated in various student regattas.
He first made himself known as rowing internationally in 2001, winning a gold medal in eights at the youth regatta in Linz.
In 2002, he entered the main team of the Canadian national team, won the eight in the world championship in Seville , took bronze at the World Cup in Lucerne.
At the 2003 World Cup in Milan, he again won the eights, was the best at the World Cup in Lucerne.
Having won the 2004 World Cup in Munich and Lucerne, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the Athens Summer Olympics . In the program, the eights made it to the main final A, but in the decisive race he came to the finish line only fifth and could not get into the number of prize winners [2] .
After the Athens Olympics, due to back problems, Crick took a break in his sports career and concentrated on studying at Stanford University , where he subsequently received a degree in geotechnics and hydrology. He was a member of the Stanford Cardinal University rowing team and played the role of a coach for the crew of newcomers.
Returning to the big sport, in 2007 he was the best in the eights at the World Cup stages in Linz and Lucerne, he won the world championship in Munich , thus becoming the three-time world champion in rowing.
Having won the 2008 World Cup in Lucerne, he successfully passed the selection for the Beijing Olympic Games . This time, in the program of eights, he beat all his rivals in the final, including by more than a second ahead of the closest pursuers from the UK, and thereby won the Olympic gold medal [3] . Being on the top step of the podium, Crick was marked by an extremely expressive performance of the anthem of Canada - this performance inspired the triathlete Simon Whitfield , who wrote the phrase “Sing Like Adam Creek” on the wheel of his bicycle, and then constantly repeated “Sing Like Creek” in the final part of the race. However, in Beijing, Whitfield became a silver medalist and was unable to repeat the performance of Scream [4] .
In 2013, after completing the career of a professional athlete, along with three other rowers, Crick made a grandiose attempt for the first time in history to travel a row boat from Africa to North America from Dakar to Miami on a rowing boat. The expedition was sponsored by the Canadian Wildlife Federation and the Seattle-based public organization OAR Northwest; it was preceded by serious training with the installation of specialized equipment for monitoring the state of the ocean and the health of participants. Traveling across the Atlantic Ocean eventually lasted 73 days. Moving along the optimal trajectory, the rowers covered about 6,700 kilometers, but crashed in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle - were forced to ask for help using the radar beacons located in life jackets, the rescuers found them and brought them ashore [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Aleksander Kreek . Eesti Spordi Biograffiline Leksikon. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.
- ↑ Holton, Kate Men's eight trained through snow and sleet for gold . Vernon Morning Star (August 17, 2008). Date of treatment August 21, 2008. Archived July 23, 2011.
- ↑ The Canadian Press . Gold in Men's Eight, Bronze in Women's Double, Men's Four , TSN.ca (August 18, 2008). Date of treatment August 18, 2008.
- ↑ Arthur, Bruce Whitfield's silver as good as gold . National Post (August 19, 2008). Date of treatment August 21, 2008.
- ↑ [1] NBC Dateline, capsize
Links
- Adam Creek - Olympic Statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Adam Creek - profile on FISA website
- Adam Crick (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee