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| Full name | Franklin Bradford Shakespeare | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 31, 1930 (age 94) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Franklin Bradford Shakespeare (born May 31, 1930) is an American former competition rower, Olympic champion and naval officer.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1930, Shakespeare won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics with the American team.[3]
In 1982, he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.[4]
In 1996, Shakespeare ran the Olympic Torch in the relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia as the only Delawarean Olympic medal winner at the time.
References
[edit]- ^ Brown, Tony. "Competitor Shares Golden Memories Of ’52 Olympics." Harrisonburg, Virginia: Daily News-Record, August 21, 2016.
- ^ Nassr, Mike. "Nine Navy Golds," in Naval History Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 5, October 2002. Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute, retrieved online March 4, 2023.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Frank Shakespeare". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
- ^ "Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in Wilmington, Delaware - 1982". www.desports.org.
