| 词条 | Robert Morrison (rower) |
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Robert Erskine Morrison (26 March 1902 – 19 February 1980) was a British rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Morrison was born at Richmond on Thames, and he was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club.[1] At Cambridge, Morrison, James MacNabb, Maxwell Eley and Terence Sanders, who had rowed together at Eton, made up the coxless four that in 1922 at Henley won the Stewards' Challenge Cup as Eton Vikings and the Visitors' Challenge Cup as Third Trinity Boat Club.[2] Morrison rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1923 and was again in the winning crew for the Stewards' Challenge Cup The coxless four crew won Steward's at Henley again in 1924 and went on to win the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[3] In 1925 at Henley Morrison won the Stewards's Challenge Cup, the Visitors' Challenge Cup and the Silver Goblets partnering Edric Hamilton-Russell. Morrison became an engineer and worked around the country until he retired to Longstanton, Cambridgeshire in 1976. See also
References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Fletcher |first1=Walter Morley |authorlink1=Walter Morley Fletcher |others= |title=The University Pitt Club: 1835–1935 |edition=First Paperback |date=2011 |origyear=1935 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-60006-5 |page=100 |pages= }} {{Olympic champions – Men's coxless four}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Robert}}{{UK-rowing-bio-stub}}{{UK-Olympic-medalist-stub}}2. ^Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839–1939 3. ^[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/robert-morrison-1.html Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Robert Morrison] 13 : 1902 births|1980 deaths|People educated at Eton College|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge|English male rowers|British male rowers|Olympic rowers of Great Britain|Rowers at the 1924 Summer Olympics|English Olympic medallists|Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain|Olympic medalists in rowing|Cambridge University Boat Club rowers|Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics |
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