Bruce Ford (rower)
Canadian rower
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Nationality | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1954-09-18) September 18, 1954 (age 69) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Burnaby Lake Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Ford[1] was a member of the Canadian Rowing team in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, winning a Bronze medal in the 1984 Men's Quadruple Sculls.[2] Alongside Pat Walter, he won Gold in the Double Sculls at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[3]
Educated at Brentwood College School, Vancouver Island[2] and the University of British Columbia,[4][5] he now works as an Environmental Biologist in Vancouver.[6] Ford lives in North Vancouver as of May 2017.
Footnotes
- ^ "Bruce Ford". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 April 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "This Week". Brentwood College School. 26 September 2000. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Rowing". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "UBC and the Olympics" (PDF). University of British Columbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "List of Vikes Olympians" (PDF). University of Victoria. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "Bruce Ford". LinkedIn Corporation. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
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- 1951: Adolfo Yedro & Mario Guerci (ARG)
- 1955: Walter Hoover & Jim Gardiner (USA)
- 1959: John Kelly & Bill Knecht (USA)
- 1963: Bill Knecht & Robert Cabeen (USA)
- 1967: James Dietz & Jim Storm (USA)
- 1971: Harri Klein & Edgard Gijsen (BRA)
- 1975: Gilberto Gerhardt & Mario Castro-Filho (BRA)
- 1979: Pat Walter & Bruce Ford (CAN)
- 1983: Robert Mills & Philip Haggerty (CAN)
- 1987: John Biglow & Greg Walker (USA)
- 1991: Sanchez & Ramirez (CUB)
- 1995: Rubén Knulst & Guillermo Pfaab (ARG)
- 1999: Walter Balunek & Damian Ordás (ARG)
- 2003: Yosbel Martínez & Yoennis Hernández (CUB)
- 2007: Yoennis Hernández & Janier Concepción (CUB)
- 2011: Cristian Rosso & Ariel Suárez (ARG)
- 2015: Eduardo Rubio & Ángel Fournier (CUB)
- 2019: Rodrigo Murillo & Cristian Rosso (ARG)
- 2023: Newton Seawright & Martín Zocalo (URU)
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