Seymour Cromwell

Seymour Cromwell
Personal information
Born February 17, 1934
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died May 2, 1977 (aged 43)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club New Rochelle Boat Club
Medal record
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
1964 Tokyo Double sculls
World Rowing Championships
1966 Bled Double sculls
1962 Lucerne Single sculls

Seymour Legrand "Sy" Cromwell II (February 17, 1934 – May 2, 1977) was an American rower. He won a silver medal in the double sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and at the 1966 World Rowing Championships.[1]

After graduating from Princeton University in 1956, Cromwell studied at MIT and Harvard University. He then briefly worked as a naval architect, but then changed to teaching. During his rowing career Cromwell won seven national titles in the single sculls and several more in double sculls. He won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1964, rowing for the Nonpareil Rowing Club of New York. Although he was selected only for the 1964 Olympics, he continued to be a top US rower up to 1970s, finishing third at the 1976 Olympic trials. In 1963, he won a gold medal at the Pan American Games in single skulls.[2] He died of pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his wife, Gail Pierson Cromwell, originally of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and his daughter, Abigail W. S. Cromwell, of Cambridge, MA, who was born after he died.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sy Cromwell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  2. ↑ Rowing Pan-American Games Sao Paulo (BRA) 1963. todor66.com


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