Gerald Grant Main ( born , ) is a Canadian rower who played for the Canadian rowing team in the 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles , champion of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh , winner and winner of regattas of national importance.
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| Club | Victoria Wykes ( Victoria ) |
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| Growth | 189 cm |
| Weight | 90 kg |
Biography
Grant Mayne was born on February 11, 1960 in Victoria , British Columbia , Canada .
He was engaged in rowing while studying at Victorian University , was a member of the local Victoria Wykes rowing team, and took part in various student regattas several times. He graduated from the university with a degree in economics.
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 spoke at the World Championships in Duisburg - in the standings of the eights he managed to qualify for the consolation final B and was located in the final protocol of the competitions on the eighth line.
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] .
After the Los Angeles Olympics, Maine remained with Canada's rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1985, he went to the world championship in Hasevinkel , where he took fifth place in oar armless fours.
In 1986, in the steering wheelless fours he won the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and finished fourth at the World Championships in Nottingham .
In 1987 he became the fifth in the eights at the world championship in Copenhagen .
Being among the leaders of the Canadian national team, I successfully passed the selection for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul - this time I could not get into the number of winners, showed the sixth result in eights [2] .
For outstanding sports achievements, he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (1985) and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (2003).
Subsequently, he proved himself in the public service, held senior positions in various ministries of British Columbia [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Grant Mayne (Eng.) - Page on the website of the International Olympic Committee
- ↑ Grant Maine - Profile on FISA Website
- ↑ Grant Maine - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- ↑ British Columbia Railway Company, Biography, Gran Main .