Robert Farnan (rower)
Robert E. Farnan (June 11, 1877 – January 10, 1939) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L .... In 1904 he won the gold medal in the coxless pairs. References External links Robert Farnam at databaseOlympics.com 1877 births 1939 deaths Rowers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing American male rowers Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics {{US-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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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 ...
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