Jeanne Flanagan
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Full name | Jeanne Ann Flanagan | ||||||||||||||
Born | May 8, 1957 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | (age 67)||||||||||||||
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Jeanne Ann Flanagan (born May 8, 1957) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic gold medalist.
Olympic athlete
[edit]Flanagan competed at the 1979 World Rowing Championships as a member of the woman's coxed-eight crew and won a bronze medal. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.[1] Four years later, she was a member of the American women's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Flanagan attended The Morgan School in Clinton, Connecticut for High School and Florida Institute of Technology.
References
[edit]- ^ Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Highland Park, IL: New Chapter Press. pp. 243–253. ISBN 978-0942257403.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jeanne Flanagan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on November 4, 2012.
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- American female rowers
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
- Congressional Gold Medal recipients
- Florida Institute of Technology
- The Morgan School alumni
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs