Rowing History: Lake Washington RC 1960 Coxless Four - Ted Nash - The Last Great LWRC Boat - Rowing Stories, Features & Interviews

row2k Features

row2k features > row2k Book exclusives > Peter Mallory's 'The Sport of Rowing'

Peter Mallory's 'The Sport of Rowing'
Rowing History: Lake Washington RC 1960 Coxless Four - Ted Nash - The Last Great LWRC Boat

November 29, 2010
Peter Mallory

1960 Olympic Champion Lake Washington Coxless-Four, John Sayre, Rusty Wailes, Ted Nash, Dan Ayrault

Chapters 83-85 from Peter Mallory's extraordinary work in progress "The Sport of Rowing; A comprehensive history." In this excerpt, Mallory looks at the Lake Washington crews of the 1960s, in particular the 1960 coxless four of Sayre, Wailes, Nash, and Ayrault and the 1964 four of Nash, Durbrow, Lyon and Mittet, and at Ted Nash's contributions to these crews and rowing technique

Updated on 1/6/2011

SUPPORT ROW2K
If you enjoy and rely on row2k, we need your help to be able to keep doing all this. Though row2k sometimes looks like a big, outside-funded operation, it mainly runs on enthusiasm and grit. Help us keep it coming, thank you! Learn more.