Bruce Logan (rower)
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Hubert Bruce Logan (2 March 1886 – 24 November 1965) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/37376 |title=Bruce Logan |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 May 2021}}
Life
Logan was born at Chesterton, Cambridge, the son of John Maxwell Samuel Logan and his wife Alice Mary Bullard. He became a member of Thames Rowing Club and, in 1909 and 1911, was a member of the crew that won the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. Also in the 1911 regatta, Logan and Charles Rought dead heated in a heat of Silver Goblets against the eventual winners Julius Beresford and Arthur Cloutte to set a course record which lasted until 1934.[http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/events/events.php?id=616691 Henley Royal Regatta When they prayed for rain 29 June 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717022816/http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/events/events.php?id=616691 |date=17 July 2011 }} A year later in 1912 Rought and Logan won Silver Goblets.[http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1839-1939.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839–1939] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309113109/http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1839-1939.htm |date=9 March 2012 }} He was the strokeman of the Thames Rowing Club coxed four which won the silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042905/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/bruce-logan-1.html Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Bruce Logan]
Achievements
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- 1912 – Silver, Coxed Four
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- 1909 – Stewards' Challenge Cup
- 1911 – Stewards' Challenge Cup
- 1912 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup (with Charles Rought)
- 1919 Victory Regatta – Fawley Cup
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Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:Rowers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:People from Chesterton, Cambridge
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