| 词条 | John Albert Mathews | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Mathews is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alum and is the only Olympian from WPI in its history.[4] He rowed on its crew team from 1972 to 1974. His Varsity boat won the Worcester City Championships in 1973 and 1974 [5] on Lake Quinsigamond. Joining Vesper Boat Club in 1974, Mathews won U.S. National Championships in the coxed four in 1975 and the coxed pair in 1975 and 1976, as well as winning in the coxed four at the Canadian Henley Royal Regatta in 1974[6][7] He won Head of the Charles Boston, MA first place medals on the same day in the elite eight (Boston Globe Trophy) and elite four with coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) in 1975 and repeating the wins again in 1976 for Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia, under coach Dietrich Rose.[8] Mathews coxed pair placed second in 1975 in the Lucerne International Regatta, the first time on the world stage that he and Darrell Vreugdenhill, along with coxswain Kenneth Dreyfus rowed the pair with together.[9] Later that fall, they won a Gold Medal in the coxed pair event at the 1975 Pan American Games at Mexico City.[10] In the Spring of 1976, his pair with coxswain trained at the Ratzeburger Ruderclub in Ratzeburg, GE, the center for elite rowing in West Germany, under Karl Adam. At the International Wedau Regatta in Duisburg, GE, they won the coxed pair event and received a medal of the seal of Duisburg in their event.[11] In 1978, Mathews joined the Boston Rugby Club as a second row forward, and also played for the Hartford Wanderers Rugby Club. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserves in 1986, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Civil Engineer Corps, serving in Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 12, 13, and 27 (the Seabees), as well as the 7th Naval Construction Regiment, and as a Contingency Engineer for U.S. European Command Headquarters in Stuttgart, GE. He is a member of Yankee Rowing Club and in 2007, at age 56, he won the Blackburn Challenge, Gloucester, MA, rowing in the Touring Class Single, Sliding Seat in a 20+ mile open ocean race circumnavigating Cape Ann.[12] He is currently employed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, MA as a Facility Manager.[13] RowingRepresenting the United States
Representing Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia
References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1975/09/08/607089/but-not-in-nottingham|title=Rowing at the 1975 Nottingham World Rowing Championships in : Men's coxed pairs|publisher=Sports Illustrated|accessdate=2011-06-02}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/USA/summer/1976/ROW/ |title=Rowing at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games in : Men's coxed pairs |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |accessdate=2011-06-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128131910/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/USA/summer/1976/ROW/ |archivedate=2012-01-28 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rowinghistory.net/US%20Team/xBoats%20-%20Men%201900-1979.htm|title=US Team Boatings US Team Boatings Men 1900 - 1979 in : Men's coxed pairs|publisher=Friends of Rowing Website|accessdate=2011-06-02}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.friendsofwpirowing.org/historycrew.html |title=Friends of WPI Rowing |accessdate=2011-06-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925065530/http://www.friendsofwpirowing.org/historycrew.html |archivedate=2010-09-25 |df= }} 5. ^WPI Edges Crusaders in City Crew, Worceseter Telegram, April 25, 1974 6. ^99th U.S. National Rowing Championships, U.S. Eight Wins Crown; Team Title to N.Y.A.C., Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, July 27, 1975 7. ^1974 Canadian Henley, Canadian Henley, Men's coxed four, The Oarsman, Publication of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, September/October 1974 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hocr.org/past-regattas/past-winners/|title=Rowing at the Head of the Charles Regatta Past Winners in : Men's coxed pairs|publisher=Head of the Charles Regatta Website|accessdate=2011-06-02}} 9. ^Lucerne International Rowing Regatta, U.S.S.R. Wins in Rowing, Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, July 13, 1975 10. ^1975 Pam American Games, Mexico, 3 United States Crews Capture Gold Medals at Pan-Am Games, Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, October 19, 1975 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.duisburg.de/freizeit/sport/regattabahn.php|title=Regattabahn Duisburg International Wedau Regatta|accessdate=2011-06-02}} 12. ^http://www.blackburnchallenge.com 13. ^http://www.umass.edu/peoplefinder/#name=john+mathews External links
8 : Living people|Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1951 births|Olympic rowers of the United States|American male rowers|Pan American Games medalists in rowing|Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States|Competitors at the 1975 Pan American Games |
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