Frank Greer
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| Full name | Frank Bartholomew Greer | |||||||||||||
| Born | February 26, 1879 East Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |||||||||||||
| Died | May 7, 1943 (aged 64) Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA | |||||||||||||
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Frank Bartholomew Greer (February 26, 1879 – May 7, 1943) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.[1]
Rowing career[]
A native of East Boston, Greer was a member of the East Boston Amateur Athletic Boat Club. He held the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen single sculls title from 1904 to 1095.[2] On July 30, 1904, he won an Olympic gold medal in the single sculls competition with a time of 10:08.5 at the age of 25. The final was held at Creve Coeur Lake in Maryland Heights, Missouri, where he beat out James Juvenal (silver) and Constance Titus (bronze).
After rowing[]
After his retirement, Greer coached at the Detroit Athletic Club and later in life became a sheriff at the Charles Street Jail in Boston.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Frank Greer". Olympedia. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ National association of amateur oarsmen (1908). Minutes. p. 124.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links[]
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Frank Greer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012.
- Database Olympics profile
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