Jack Beresford - Achievements

Achievements

  • Olympic Medals: 3 Gold, 2 Silver
  • First rower to compete at five Olympics with his 1936 Olympic appearance. This feat that would be unmatched for forty years till Soviet rower Yuri Lorentsson made his fifth Olympic appearance in 1976, and unsurpassed for another sixteen years until Czechoslovak rower Jiří Pták made his sixth Olympic appearance in 1992.

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