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| Born | February 11, 1998 [1] Evanston, IL, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Harvard University University of Washington | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
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Pieter Quinton (born 11 February 1998) is an American rower. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's eight.
Quinton grew up in Portland, Oregon. He started rowing in 2011 at Rose City Rowing Club. He attended Grant High School. [2] He graduated from Harvard University in 2020, and was a graduate student at the University of Washington in 2021. [3] Quinton was part of the Huskies' undefeated national champion boat in 2021, winning the program's 19th national title in the Varisty 8+. [4]
He competed as part of the United States men's eight boat at the 2022 and 2023 World Rowing Championships. [5]
Quinton 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. [6] [7]
Quinton's younger brother Philip is a professional soccer player for Real Salt Lake.
Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. The first intercollegiate race was a contest between Yale and Harvard in 1852. In the 2018–19 school year, there were 2,340 male and 7,294 female collegiate rowers in Divisions I, II and III, according to the NCAA. The sport has grown since the first NCAA statistics were compiled for the 1981–82 school year, which reflected 2,053 male and 1,187 female collegiate rowers in the three divisions. Some concern has been raised that some recent female numbers are inflated by non-competing novices.
Harry Lambert Parker was the head coach of the Harvard varsity rowing program (1963–2013). He also represented the United States in the single scull at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
The Los Gatos Rowing Club was started in 1979 to provide what was then mostly an eastern U.S. sport, to the kids in the Santa Clara Valley. In the past 20 years, more than 2,000 kids from 15 different high schools have passed through the program. Many have gone onto colleges and universities to row competitively, several have received rowing scholarships, and a few have been selected for Junior National Camps and are trying for the Olympics.
Christopher Donald Liwski is a Canadian American rower, a six-time U.S. National Team member, a double world championship medal winner, and a two-time member of the United States Olympic Rowing Team.
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.
Stephen Patrick Trapmore is an English rowing coach and former rower who represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He is currently the High Performance Coach within the Great Britain Olympic Rowing programme, developing athletes and crews to compete at World and Olympic competition.
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 University of Oregon Rowing Team is located in Eugene, Oregon, and practices at Dexter Reservoir nearby. The team was founded in 1967 and has operated continuously under the guidance of the University. At Oregon, men's and women's teams practice together and compete against other teams regionally and nationally in a number of regattas each year. Even before the passage of Title IX in 1972, the team received national attention for Coach Don Costello's controversial use of female coxswain Victoria Brown in crew, in a previously all-male sport.
Clark Dean is an American rower. He is an Olympian and twice world champion at junior level at the World Rowing Junior Championships.
Liam Corrigan is an American rower.
Margaret Hedeman is an American rower. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Christian Tabash is an American rower. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Peter Chatain is an American rower. He won a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Christopher "Chris" Carlson is an American rower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Henry Hollingsworth is an American rower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Rielly Milne is an American rower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Gert-Jan van Doorn is a Dutch rower. He won a silver medal in the men's eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Evan Olson is an American rower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Nicholas "Nick" Rusher is an American rower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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