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| Born | May 14, 1999 [1] Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Harvard University | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | Paris 2024 M8+ | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Christian Tabash (born May 14, 1999) is an American rower. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]
Tabash was born in Alexandria, Virginia to parents Katia and Peter Tabash. [3] Tabash identifies as Palestinian. [4] He attended Gonzaga College High School and Harvard University, where he graduated with a degree in government. In 2018, he worked as a research assistant to Noura Erakat. [5] He is fluent in French and Haitian Créole. [6]
He won the silver medal in the eight at the 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships and bronze in the four with coxswain at the 2021 World Rowing U23 Championships. [7]
While taking graduate courses at University of California, Berkeley, Tabash was a member of the university's rowing team. [3]
He won the eight at the 2024 World Rowing Final Olympic & Paralympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne. [8]
Tabash represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the men's eight, with a time of 5:25.28. [9] [10]
World Rowing, also known as the World Rowing Federation, is the international governing body for rowing. Its current president is Jean-Christophe Rolland who succeeded Denis Oswald at a ceremony held in Lucerne in July 2014.
Beau Hoopman is an American rower.
Bryan Volpenhein, is an American rower. He is a three-time Olympian, having participated in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.
Caryn Davies is an American rower. She is the winner of the 2023 Thomas Keller Medal, the most prestigious international award in the sport of rowing, and the only American to have ever won this award. She won gold medals as the stroke seat of the U.S. women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. In April 2015 Davies stroked Oxford University to victory in the first ever women's Oxford/Cambridge boat race held on the same stretch of the river Thames in London where the men's Oxford/Cambridge race has been held since 1829. She was the most highly decorated Olympian to take part in either [men's or women's] race. In 2012 Davies was ranked number 4 in the world by the International Rowing Federation. At the 2004 Olympic Games she won a silver medal in the women's eight. Davies has won more Olympic medals than any other U.S. oarswoman. The 2008 U.S. women's eight, of which she was a part, was named FISA crew of the year. Davies is from Ithaca, New York, where she graduated from Ithaca High School, and rowed with the Cascadilla Boat Club. Davies was on the Radcliffe College (Harvard) Crew Team and was a member on Radcliffe's 2003 NCAA champion Varsity 8, and overall team champion. In 2013, she was a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she stroked the college men's eight to a victory in both Torpids and the Oxford University Summer Eights races. In 2013–14 Davies took up Polynesian outrigger canoeing in Hawaii, winning the State novice championship and placing 4th in the long-distance race na-wahine-o-ke-kai with her team from the Outrigger Canoe Club. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame and in 2022 into the Harvard University Athletics Hall of Fame.
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