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James McMillin
James Burge McMillin (March 8, 1914 – August 22, 2005) was an American rower, who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics. McMillin was born in Seattle and raised in the Queen Anne Hill area. McMillin rowed in the University of Washington senior varsity eights which won US national Intercollegiate Rowing Association titles in 1936 and 1937. In 1936, he rowed to an Olympic gold medal in the five seat of the American boat in the eights competition. His role in the University of Washington eight and their Olympic victory is explored in the 2013 non-fiction book by author Daniel James Brown, ''The Boys in the Boat''.Brown, Daniel James (2013). ''The Boys In The Boat'', Viking / Penguin Group, New York. . After graduating McMillin coached rowing at MIT and during WWII worked at MIT as a laboratory engineer on classified research. His later career was with Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing At The Summer Olympics
Rowing at the Summer Olympics has been part of the competition since its debut in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Rowing was on the program at the 1896 Summer Olympics but was cancelled due to bad weather. Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal which gave national federations the incentive to support women's events and catalysed growth in women's rowing. Lightweight rowing events (which have weight-limited crews) were introduced to the games in 1996. Qualifying for the rowing events is under the jurisdiction of the World Rowing Federation. World Rowing predates the modern Olympics and was the first international sport federation to join the modern Olympic movement. Summary Events At the 2016 and other recent Olympics, the following 14 events were contested: *Men: Single sculls, Double sculls, Quadruple sculls, Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight. *Lightweight Men: Double sculls, Coxless four *Women: Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |