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Bernard Boverton Redwood

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Olympic medal record


Men's Water motorsports


Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class B


Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class C

Bernard Boverton Redwood (28 November 1874 – 28 September 1911) was a British motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

As crew member of the Gyrinus he won two gold medals in the only motor boat competitions at the Olympics. His father was Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet.[1]

Coat of arms of Bernard Boverton Redwood
Crest
A rock, thereon an eagle rising Proper charged on each wing with a mullet of six points in the beak a staff raguly Or.
Escutcheon
Paly of six Or and Ermine a lion rampant Sable on a chief Azure an embattled gateway Proper between two mullets of six points of the first.
Motto
Lumen Sevimus Antique [2]

Notes

  1. ^ Bernard Boverton Redwood
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.