| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Born | August 31, 1974 [1] Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Home town | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Education | University at Buffalo |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) |
| Weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Pararowing |
| Disability | Parkinson's disease |
Medal record | |
Todd Vogt (born August 31, 1974) is an American pararower. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Vogt attended the University at Buffalo and graduated with a degree in biochemistry. He started rowing in 1992 when he saw a poster outside his freshman dorm room in college. [2]
He was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease in 2018. [3] [4]
Vogt made his international debut for the United States at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in the PR3 men's coxless pair event. He was named an alternate for the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [3] [5] He again represented the United States at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in the PR3 mixed doubles sculls event. [6]
Vogt represented the United States at the 2023 World Rowing Championships and won a silver medal in the PR3 mixed double sculls event with a time of 8:15.22. [7] On July 2, 2024, he was selected to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [8] [9] [10]
Pararowing is a category of rowing race for those with physical, visual or intellectual disabilities.
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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