David Clark (rower)
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| Full name | David Robert Clark | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 17, 1959 (age 64) St. Louis, Missouri , U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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David Robert Clark (born November 17, 1959) is a
Munich, Germany in 1981. He also rowed on the four-oared crew that finished 7th in the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand 1983.[2] Clark earned a silver medal with the U.S. team in the men's coxless four at the 1984 Summer Olympics with Jonathan Smith, Philip Stekl, and Alan Forney. Their time of 6:06.10 was less than three seconds behind the victorious New Zealand team of Shane O'Brien, Les O'Connell, Conrad Robertson, and Keith Trask, which finished at 6:03.48.[3]
Education
Clark graduated from Cornell University in 1982, and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990. In the no. 6 seat with the Cornell heavyweight crew team, Clark won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association title in 1981 and 1982 and competed in the Henley Royal Regatta.[4]
Associations
Clark joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Cornell, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.[5] He was also president of Eta Kappa Nu and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Lambda Delta. He was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "David Clark". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ^ Friends of Rowing History website Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ International Olympic Committee website Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame
- ^ Cornell University Residence Plan of 1966, Schedule I, Appendix A (May 3, 1966) (see sixth page of document noting the relationship between Phi Kappa Psi and the Irving Literary Society); see also, List of Phi Kappa Psi/Irving Literary Society Members (Aug. 18, 2011).
- ^ The Cornellian yearbook, 1982