- Charles Grimes (rower)
-
Medal record Men’s rowing Competitor for the United States Olympic Games Gold 1956 Melbourne Men's eights Charles Livingston Grimes (July 9, 1935 – February 5, 2007) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
Contents
Biography
Early life
Grimes was the son of Charles Pennebaker Grimes and Louise Davis Ireland Grimes.
Education
Grimes was prepared at Groton. He graduated from Yale University in 1957 and had an LL.B. from Harvard Law.
He played varsity football and basketball at Yale. Grimes accelerated his four-year course of study, graduating half way through his senior year. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, for one year after Yale.
College and Olympics
Grimes competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in eights with the American rowing team.[1]
Grimes was physically imposing[2] and powered the 1956 gold medal Olympic crew in Melbourne where he pulled so much water on his side that there was a problem balancing the boat. That team was the last university team to bring home the gold.
Later in life
"Grimes graduated from Yale in 1957 and from Harvard Law School in 1960. After a brief law career, he worked as an independent financial advisor and investor."[3]
Grimes was also the plaintiff in the Grimes v. Donald, 673 A.2d 1207 (Del. 1996), one of the landmark Delaware corporations cases.[4]
Wife Jane Brown Grimes is the second female Chairperson and President of the USTA.
References
- ^ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Rowing" (Retrieved on May 15, 2008)
- ^ Sports Reference.com
- ^ LA Times Feb. 9, 2007 Obituary
- ^ Lawyerlinks.com
Categories:- 1935 births
- 2007 deaths
- American rowers
- Yale University alumni
- Harvard Law School alumni
- Olympic rowers of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.