Lorne Loomer
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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 11, 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 1, 2017 (aged 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lorne Kenneth Loomer (March 11, 1937 – January 1, 2017) was a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion.[1]
He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald MacKinnon, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold.[2] At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Loomer received a gold medal in eights.
Awards
[edit | edit source]Loomer was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1958. He was inducted into British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, and into University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, together with the other members of the Olympic gold team.[3] The Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame inducted Loomer in 1994.
Notes
[edit | edit source]Conflicting sources
[edit | edit source]Some sources list Loomer as a silver medallist in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.[4] However, according to other sources Loomer competed in coxless pairs, but was replaced by substitute David Anderson in the coxed eights.[5][6][7]
References
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External links
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- 1937 births
- 2017 deaths
- Canadian male rowers
- Olympic rowers for Canada
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Nelson, British Columbia
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in rowing
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Rowers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs
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