Conlin McCabe (born August 20, 1990) is a Canadian rower. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic games and two gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Born in
Brockville
Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...
,
Ontario
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, McCabe rowed for the
University of Washington
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Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...
from 2009 to 2013 (after taking a year off for the Olympics), helping the Huskies win three national championships. McCabe majored in Geography while at Washington. He also came in first at the 2011
CRASH-B
The CRASH-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships (CRASH-B Sprints) was the world championship for indoor rowing, raced over a distance of 2,000m. The regatta is sponsored by Concept2, and raced on their C2 rowers. Originally held in Harvard' ...
Sprints, a 2000-metre
indoor rowing
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race with a time of 5:48.0. This made McCabe the first Canadian to ever win a CRASH-B competition in the Men's Open category.
McCabe's international racing career started at the
World Rowing Junior Championships
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. He placed fourth in the
coxed pair
A coxed pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain.
The crew consists of two rowers, each having one oar, and a cox. One row ...
in 2006 and won a silver medal in the coxless pair in 2007 with
Anthony Jacob. McCabe went on to compete at two Under-23 World Championships, winning a silver in 2010 in the coxless pair (also with Jacob) and finishing fourth in the coxless four in 2009.
He won a silver medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
men's eight
An eight is a rowing boat used in the rowing (sport), sport of competitive rowing (crew). It is designed for eight rowers, who propel the boat with Sweep (rowing), sweep oars, and is steered by a coxswain (rowing), coxswain, or "cox".
Each of th ...
with
Andrew Byrnes
James Andrew Byrnes (born May 22, 1983) is a Canadian rower and Olympic gold medallist. He was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Ithaca, New York. Byrnes is a 2005 graduate of Bates College in Maine, where he rowed for the Bates Rowing Team ...
,
Gabriel Bergen
Gabriel "Gabe" Bergen (born 6 July 1982 in Dawson Creek) is a Canadian rower. Bergen won a silver medal as part of the men's eights for Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He has also won one medal of every colour at the World Champion ...
,
Jeremiah Brown,
Will Crothers
Will Crothers (born June 14, 1987 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian rower. He started rowing in grade 9 for KCVI, following his brother into the sport. Within just a few years, Will and his rowing partner Rob Gibson were Canadian high school ch ...
,
Douglas Csima,
Robert Gibson,
Malcolm Howard and
Brian Price.
In 2016 McCabe competed on
Canada's 2016 Olympic team in the
Coxless Four
A coxless four is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars, without a coxswain.
The crew consists of four rowers, each having one oar. There are two rowers on t ...
which placed 6th overall.
McCabe competed at the
2020 Summer Olympics.
References
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1990 births
Living people
Canadian male rowers
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of Canada
Olympic medalists in rowing
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Brockville
Washington Huskies men's rowers
Rowers at the 2015 Pan American Games
World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Ontario
Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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