Michael Lapage

Medal record
Men's Rowing
Olympic Games
Competitor for  Great Britain
Silver	1948 London	Eights
British Empire Games
Competitor for  England
Bronze	1950 Auckland	eights

Michael Clement Lapage (born 15 November 1923) is a former missionary and English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Lapage was born at Shaftesbury, Dorset, the son of Reginald H Lapage, vicar of Shaftesbury, and his wife Dora Ehlvers. He was educated at Monkton Combe School where he was a contemporary of fellow Olympic rower Alfred Mellows. During World War II Lapage saw service as a Fleet Air Arm pilot in the Pacific.

After the war Lapage was at Cambridge University and was a member of the winning Cambridge boat in the 1948 Boat Race. In 1948, he was a crew member of the British boat which won the silver medal rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the men's eights.^[1]

At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal as part of the English boat in the eights competition.

Lapage became a Christian missionary and was ordained in Kenya in 1961.^[2]

See also

• List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
• Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

References

1. ^ Sports Reference Olympic Sports - Michael Lapage
2. ^ Church Times Issue 7427 - 15 July 2005 Michael Lapage Fleet Air Arm pilot, rowing silver medallist in the 1948 British Olympics, and missionary teacher in Kenya

Persondata
Name	Lapage, Michael
Alternative names	Lapage, Michael Clement (full name)
Short description	British rower and Christian missionary
Date of birth	15 November 1923
Place of birth	Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK
Date of death
Place of death