Stanley Cwiklinski
American rower (born 1943)
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Born | (1943-07-25) July 25, 1943 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.[2] | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Fairmount Rowing Association Vesper Boat Club[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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Stanley Francis "Stan" Cwiklinski (pronounced "quick-LIN-skee",[3] born July 25, 1943) is an American former rower. Competing in the eights he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and a bronze at the 1965 European Championship.[4]
Cwiklinski took up rowing at La Salle University, where he was teammates with Hugh Foley, and studied zoology. In 1963, he joined the Vesper Boat Club.[2] He was a career naval officer specializing in marine salvage.
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- William A Stowe (2005). All Together. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34388-1.
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Olympic champions – Men's eight
- 1908:
Gladstone, Kelly, Johnstone, Nickalls, Burnell, Sanderson, Etherington-Smith, Bucknall, Maclagan (GBR)
- 1960:
Rulffs, Schröder, F. Schepke, K. Schepke, von Groddeck, Hopp, Bittner, Lenk, Padge (EUA)
- 1968:
Meyer, Hottenrott, Schreyer, Hirschfelder, Henning, Siebert, Ulbricht, Ott, Tiersch (FRG)
- 2020:
Mackintosh, Bond, Murray, Brake, Williamson, Wilson, Kirkham, Macdonald, Bosworth (NZL)
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