Horn, Blair

Blair Horn was born July 17, 1961 in the city of Kelowna , British Columbia , Canada .

He graduated from Brentwood College and the University of Washington . During his studies at the university, he was a member of the local Washington Haskis rowing team and took part in various student regattas several times.

He first made himself known as rowing at the adult international level in the 1983 season, when he joined the main national team of the Canadian national team and attended the Pan American Games in Caracas , from where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the offset of the oar steering fours - he lost here only to teams from the USA and Brazil.

Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . In the program, the eights beat all his rivals in the main final, including 0.42 seconds ahead of the closest pursuers from the United States, and thereby won the Olympic gold medal. Thus, for the first time in history, the Canadian eight became the best at the Olympic Games ^{[1] [2]} .

After the Los Angeles Olympics, due to back problems, Horn was forced to leave the rowing team of Canada and soon completed his career as an athlete.

For outstanding sports achievements, he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (1985) and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (2003).

In 1987, he graduated from York Law School with a bachelor's degree in law and then became a practicing lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin ^[3] .