Roland Prout (1 March 1920 – 24 April 1997)
was a
British sprint canoer
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
Overview
Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...
who competed in the early 1950s. He was eliminated in the heats of the
K-2 1000 m event at the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
in
Helsinki.
Together with his brother
Francis Prout
Francis Prout (7 July 1921 Greenwich, Greater London, England – 23 February 2011 Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) was a British sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. He was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 S ...
, in the family firm of
G. Prout & Sons (founded in 1935 by their father,
Geoffrey Prout
Geoffrey Prout (1894-1960) (pseudonym Roland Spencer) was an English boat builder, soldier, and author. From the 1910s to 1960s Prout wrote non-fiction boating works and juvenile adventure fiction.
Early life
Prout was born in Saxilby in 1894 ...
), he developed the pioneering ''
Shearwater III'' racing
catamaran
A Formula 16 beachable catamaran
Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States
A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stab ...
in 1956 and several later designs.
References
External links
Roland Prout's profile at Sports Reference.com
1920 births
1997 deaths
Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists of Great Britain
British male canoeists
British yacht designers
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