Jeffrey Klepacki
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Full name | Jeffrey Gerard Klepacki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | December 17, 1968 Kearny, New Jersey, U.S. | (age 55)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jeffrey Gerard Klepacki (born December 17, 1968, in Kearny, New Jersey) is an American rower. He represented the United States in the Olympics (1992, 1996 and 2000). Klepacki led the US Heavyweight 8+ to the gold medal in the world rowing championships in 1994 and again won World Championship gold medals in the Heavyweight 8+ in 1998 and 1999. Klepacki grew up in Kearny, New Jersey, and started rowing while attending Kearny High School.[1] He then attended Rutgers University.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Di Ionno, Mark. "The saddest stroke of all", The Star-Ledger, July 23, 2008, updated April 2, 2019. Accessed December 10, 2019. "'We're not abandoning the program,' said Klepacki, who like Jen Dore, took up crew on the Passaic River while at Kearny High School."
- ^ Wallace, William M. "ROWING; U.S. Heavyweights Win Gold at the Wire", The New York Times, September 19, 1994. Accessed November 1, 2007.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jeff Klepacki". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
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- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
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- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- Rowers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
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