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Jeanne Flanagan

Jeanne Flanagan

American rower (born 1957)

Jeanne Ann Flanagan (born May 8, 1957) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic gold medalist.

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Olympic athlete

Flanagan competed at the 1979 World Rowing Championships as a member of the woman's coxed-eight crew and won a bronze medal. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.[1] Four years later, she was a member of the American women's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[2]

Personal life

Flanagan attended The Morgan School in Clinton, Connecticut for High School and Florida Institute of Technology.

References

  1. [1]
    Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Highland Park, IL: New Chapter Press. pp. 243–253. ISBN 978-0942257403.
  2. [2]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jeanne Flanagan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.


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