Jon Brown (rower)

Jon Brown
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan W. Brown
Born	November 28, 1968 (age 55); New York City, New York, U.S.
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing the United States
World Championships
Henley Royal Regatta
Pan American Games

Last updated September 12, 2024

Jonathan W. Brown (born November 28, 1968) is an American rower. He finished 5th in the men's eight at the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[1] Jon Brown rowed at Boston University. He also won two bronze medals (1993, 1995) and one Gold (1994) in the HW8 at Worlds. Vanity Fair Cover 1996 Olympics photo shoot by Annie Leibowitz with other Olympic athletes.

Education: Boston University, Bachelor of Arts (BA), John Jay College (CUNY), Master's degree

Related Research Articles

Robert Norman Waddell is a New Zealand Olympic Gold Medalist and double World Champion Single sculler rower, and America's Cup yachtsman. He is a triple New Zealand Supreme 'Halberg Awards' Sportsperson of the year winner, 1998 to 2000. He holds the third fastest 2000 metre indoor rowing machine time in the world, clocking a time of 5 mins 36.6 secs (5:36.6), which was the previous world record for 19 years before the time was improved by Joshua Dunkley-Smith. He also held the record for 5000m on the rowing machine with a time of 14min 58sec. This made him the first person to go below 15 min for this distance. He holds a black belt in judo. He played rugby union for Waikato. Waddell was Chef de Mission of the 2014 and 2018 New Zealand Commonwealth Games teams, and the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.

Andrew N Hoskins is a Canadian rower. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta. He won the gold medal at both the 2003 and 2002 world championships for Canada's men's eight team in Milan, Italy and Seville, Spain respectively. Hoskins comes from a long line of rowers on his mother's side: He is the grandson of Ted Lindstrom; the nephew of Olympian David Lindstrom, and the cousin of Olympian George Keys.

Xeno R. Müller is a Swiss rower and Olympic gold medallist.

New Zealand competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 97 athletes and 60 officials. Former Olympic swimmer Dave Gerrard was the team's chef de mission.

Derek Nesbitt-Porter is a gold medal-winning Olympic rower from Canada.

Hugh Miller Foley 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. He also won a gold in the coxed fours at the 1967 Pan American Games. During his career, Foley won a total of six national titles in the fours and eights.

Richard Gordon McBride Budgett OBE is a British Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee. He won an Olympic rowing gold medal in coxed four at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was chief medical officer at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

Charles Ward Day was an American rower who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Donald Bruce Hume was an American rower who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Charles Livingston Grimes was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.

The College Boat Club of the University of Pennsylvania is the rowing program for University of Pennsylvania Rowing, which is located in the Burk-Bergman Boathouse at #11 Boathouse Row on the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its membership consists entirely of past and present rowers of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Union Boat Club, founded in 1851, is an athletic club in Boston. It is the longest continuously operating rowing club in Boston. Located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood along the Charles River, the Club has grown beyond rowing and now features squash and general fitness facilities for its 700 members. In 1914, UBC placed second in the prestigious Grand Challenge Cup. The 1914 crew lost to Harvard after beating a crew from Germany to enter the finals at the Henley Royal Regatta.

Florian Mennigen is a German former representative rower. He is a three time world champion and an Olympic gold medallist.

James W. Koven is an American rower.

Robert J. "Bob" Kaehler is an American rower. He finished 5th in the men's eight at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Steven C. Segaloff is an American rowing cox. He finished 5th in the men's eight at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Toni James Dunlop is a New Zealand rower and has represented New Zealand three times at the Olympics.

Andrea Re is an Italian lightweight rower. With eight gold medals at World Rowing Championships, he is one of the most successful rowers ever. He represented Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA.

Roger Brown is a British rower. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Jonathan Adam Holland is an American rower. He competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He graduated from Harvard University.

References

↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jon Brown". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2018.

Jonathan Brown at World Rowing

External links

This biographical article relating to American rowing is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jon Brown". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2018.

[1]