Matt Leanderson

Olympic medal record
Men's Rowing
Bronze	1952 Helsinki	coxed fours

Matthew "Matt" Fillip Leanderson (March 11, 1931 – November 2, 2006) was an American rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Alderwood Manor, and graduated from Edmonds High School.

In 1952, he was the strokeman of the American boat in the Olympic coxswain fours event. Because their coach was absent at the Olympics, Leanderson directed his team, which won the bronze medal with a 7:37.0 finish, just 0.5 seconds behind the silver-medal-winning Swiss team.

He went on to coach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later left MIT to coach the freshman crew team at the University of Washington, where he took over as head coach from 1959 to 1967. He also coached rowing at Western Washington University from 1977 to 1993. Leanderson was inducted into the Western Washington University Hall of Fame in 1998 and the University of Washington Hall of Fame in 2002.

He died in Kirkland, Washington. He is interred at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

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Persondata
Name	Leanderson, Matt
Alternative names
Short description	Olympic medalists in rowing
Date of birth	March 11, 1931
Place of birth	Seattle, Washington
Date of death	November 2, 2006
Place of death	Kirkland, Washington