Paul Hoffman (rowing)

Paul Hoffman (rowing)

Paul Hoffman was a member of the US Olympic Rowing Team at the 1968 Summer Olympics Mexico City.

A supporter of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR), Hoffman provided Peter Norman the Australian winner of the Silver medal of the Men's 200m track race with his OPHR badge he wore at the medal ceremony in support of the protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos medal podium. He went on to face a US Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing charged with conspiracy. He was found not guilty and was allowed to take part in the Men's Eights race. [Black Power Salute, BBC TV documentary 2008]

Hoffman went on to take a Silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich as the cox of the Men's Eights Crew.

ee also

* 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute

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