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Kim Jelbart
Kim Jelbart (4 May 1937 – 10 April 2024) was an Australian representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Rowing pedigree Jelbart's father Ron represented Victoria in the single scull in 1930 and later coached Australian crews. His uncle Peter and cousins Norman and Lloyd also rowed and they had teamed up with Ron in an MUBC crew which dominated Victorian fours racing in the late 1930s. Peter's son Kerry Jelbart (Kim's cousin) was also an Australian representative rower who enjoyed notable success. Kim Jelbart rowed for Trinity College at Melbourne University and for the Melbourne University Boat Club. He was selected in the Victorian state representative men's senior eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the 1958 Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 1959 he stroked an MUBC eight to second place in the Victorian state championship. International representative rowing For the 1960 Rome Oly ...
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Rowing (sport)
Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rower holds two oars—one in each hand, while in sweep rowing each rower holds one oar with both hands. There are several boat classes in which athletes may compete, ranging from single sculls, occupied by one person, to shells with eight rowers and a coxswain, called eights. There are a wide variety of course types and formats of racing, but most elite and championship level racing is conducted on calm water courses long with several lanes marked using buoys. Modern rowing as a competitive sport can be traced to the early 17th century when professional watermen held races ( regattas) on the River Thames in London, England. Often prizes were offered by the L ...
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Brian Vear
Brian Vear (16 November 1937The Banks Rowing Club obituary has a date of birth of 25 January 1937, Sports-reference has 16 November 1937 - 18 February 2008) was an Australian representative rower who competed at two Olympic Games. In later life he was a tireless organiser and convenor of regattas at state, national and international levels. Club and state rowing Vear was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat where he took up rowing. He was a member of that school's first IV when they won the Ballarat Public Schools' Head of the Lake race in 1955. In Melbourne, Vear's senior club rowing was from the Banks Rowing Club where he was a member and President from 1996 to 2006. Vear first made state selection for Victoria in the 1963 men's eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta. He also rowed in the victorious 1964 Victorian King's Cup eight and again in 1965 when they placed second. International representative rowing For the 1960 Ro ...
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Rowers At The 1960 Summer Olympics
Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically attached to the boat, and the rower drives the oar like a lever, exerting force in the ''same'' direction as the boat's travel; while paddles are completely hand-held and have no attachment to the boat, and are driven like a cantilever, exerting force ''opposite'' to the intended direction of the boat. In some strict terminologies, using oars for propulsion may be termed either "pulling" or "rowing", with different definitions for each. Where these strict terminologies are used, the definitions are reversed depending on the context. On saltwater a "pulling boat" has each person working one oar on one side, alternating port and starboard along the length of the boat; whilst "rowing" means each person operates two oars, one on each side of th ...
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Olympic Rowers For Australia
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Australian Male Rowers
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2024 Deaths
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 26 25 * Hari Shankar Bhabhra, 95, Indian politician, MP (1978–1984), speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1990–1994) and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan (1994–1998). * Bhavatharini, 47, Indian composer ('' Bharathi'', '' Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkirathu'') and music director ('' Mitr, My Friend''), cancer. *Roger Donlon, 89, American military officer, Medal of Honor recipient. * Sanath Nishantha, 48, Sri Lankan politician, minister of state for water supply (2020–2022, since 2022) and MP (since 2015), traffic collision. * Elahi Bux Soomro, 97, Pakistani politician, member (1985–2007) and speaker (1996–20 ...
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1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and ...
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Nine Entertainment
Nine Entertainment (registered as Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd) is an Australian publicly listed media company with holdings in radio and television broadcasting, newspaper publications and digital media. It uses Nine as its corporate branding and also prefers this usage to be used for the parent company. The entity is largely a successor to the former Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL), which was established by the Packer family. The Packers officially ended their involvement with the company in 2008 and its name was changed to Nine in 2010. The company merged with Fairfax Media in December 2018, expanding its brands and investments across television, video on demand, print, digital, radio and real estate classifieds. Nine's assets include the Nine Network, Nine Radio; major newspaper mastheads such as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Age'' and ''The Australian Financial Review''; digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Honey, Pedestrian; video-on-demand platf ...
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The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper '' The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. Syme family The ...
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Peter Guest
Peter John Guest (born 14 February 1938) is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Early rowing Guest was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne where he took up rowing. He rowed in the Wesley senior eight in both of his senior years at the school - 1954 and 1955. He did not initially pursue rowing after school but after seeing the success which his younger brother Paul was having at the Melbourne University Boat Club, he again took up the sport and joined the MUBC. Guest was selected as an emergency in 1960 for the Victorian men's senior eight which contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta but he did not race. Given the selection vagaries of the time and the fact that Australian Rowing Championships did not start till 1962, Guest enjoys a rare distinction of having rowed for Australia without having rowed for his state nor having ever won any national nor university championship title. ...
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Peter Gillon
Peter Gillon (11 August 1939 – 6 December 2018) was an Australian representative rower who competed at two Olympic Games. He competed at the 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the men's coxless four. Club and state rowing Gillon was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing was from the Yarra Yarra Rowing Club and later the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. The strength of Victorian rowing in the early 1960s was such that Gillon had already rowed at two Olympic Games before he was able to earn a seat in the Victorian state representative men's senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regattas within the Australian Rowing Championships. That selection came in 1965 when he rowed in the two seat of the Victorian eight to a second placing in the King's Cup behind NSW. He contested national title events at Australian Rowing Championships first held in 1962 and thereafter every second year. He won silver in a coxe ...
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Victoria (state)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolita ...
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