Hugh Foley
American rower
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Foley at the 1964 European Championships
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Full name | Hugh Miller Foley | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
March 3, 1944
Seattle, Washington , U.S. [2] |
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Died | November 9, 2016 (2016-11-09) (aged 72) [3] | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | La Salle University | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||
Club | Vesper Boat Club [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hugh Miller Foley (March 3, 1944 – November 9, 2016) was an American rower. Competing in the eights he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and a bronze medal at the 1965 European Championships. [4] He also won a gold in the coxed fours at the 1967 Pan American Games. [5] During his career, Foley won a total of six national titles in the fours and eights. [2]
Foley was born in Seattle, but was raised in Martin City, Montana , where his father worked as a forester and a farmer. In 1962, Foley enrolled to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, [6] but then transferred to La Salle University in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966 in accounting. He joined the Vesper Boat Club there around 1963. [7] He remained active in rowing after retiring from competitions, and coached at Boston University in the 1970s, but later became a financial advisor in Eugene, Oregon . [2] His Olympic medal was stolen from his home in 1996, but was recovered by the police. [8]
References
- ↑ Spero of U.S. Gains in European Rowing . New York Times (August 7, 1964)
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hugh Foley . sports-reference.com
- ↑ Hugh Foley's obituary
- ↑ Rudern – Europameisterschaften – Herren. Vierer o.Stm. Achter . sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Steven Olderr (14 September 2009). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadística, 1951–1999, edición bilingüe . McFarland. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4766-0468-8 .
- ↑ Stowe, 39
- ↑ Stowe, 41
- ↑ Stowe, 170
Cited sources
- William A Stowe (2005). All Together . iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34388-1 .
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