James Dunbar (rower)
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| Full name | James Ralph Dunbar | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 17, 1930 Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | May 14, 2018 (aged 87)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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James Ralph "Jim" Dunbar (July 17, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. He was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he and his teammates, all members of the U.S. Naval Academy's Crew Team, captured the gold medal in the men's eight rowing competition (Coxed eights) for the U.S. in Helsiknki, Finland.
Following his Olympic win, Dunbar graduated from the United States Naval Academy and joined the U.S. Air Force where he spent his career as a fighter pilot, retiring as a full colonel in 1982. He flew an F-105 Thunderchief in combat in the Vietnam war, and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has stayed connected to the sport of rowing by coaching high school rowing teams, including the J.E.B. Stuart High School Crew Team in Fairfax County, Virginia. He has also raised money for local rowing teams and was involved in choosing the site for rowing competition in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jim Dunbar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012.
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- 1930 births
- 2018 deaths
- People from Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Olympic rowers of the United States
- Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
- American male rowers
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs