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John Albert "Monster" Mathews (born September 30, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is a former American competitive rower, U.S. Olympian and Pan American. He was a member of the 1975 World Championship Team to Nottingham, England, where he placed fifth in the coxed pair.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rowing at the 1975 Nottingham World Rowing Championships in : Men's coxed pairs )〕 Mathews was also a member of the U.S. Olympic Team competing in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the men's coxed pair event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rowing at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games in : Men's coxed pairs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=US Team Boatings US Team Boatings Men 1900 - 1979 in : Men's coxed pairs )〕 John Mathews is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alum and was the first Olympian from WPI in its history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Friends of WPI Rowing )〕 He rowed on its crew team from 1972 to 1974. His Varsity boat won the Worcester City Championships in 1973 and 1974 〔WPI Edges Crusaders in City Crew, Worceseter Telegram, April 25, 1974〕 on Lake Quinsigamond. Joining Vesper Boat Club in 1974, Mathews won U.S. National Championships in the coxed four in 1975 and the coxed pair in 1975 and 1976, as well as winning in the coxed four at the Canadian Henley Royal Regatta in 1974〔99th U.S. National Rowing Championships, U.S. Eight Wins Crown; Team Title to N.Y.A.C., Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, July 27, 1975〕〔1974 Canadian Henley, Canadian Henley, Men's coxed four, The Oarsman, Publication of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, September/October 1974〕 He won Head of the Charles Boston, MA first place medals on the same day in the elite eight (Boston Globe Trophy) and elite four with coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) in 1975 and repeating the wins again in 1976 for Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia, under coach Dietrich Rose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rowing at the Head of the Charles Regatta Past Winners in : Men's coxed pairs )〕 Mathews coxed pair placed second in 1975 in the Lucerne International Regatta, the first time on the world stage that he and Darrell Vreugdenhill, along with coxswain Kenneth Dreyfus rowed the pair with together.〔Lucerne International Rowing Regatta, U.S.S.R. Wins in Rowing, Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, July 13, 1975〕 Later that fall, they won a Gold Medal in the coxed pair event at the 1975 Pan American Games at Mexico City.〔1975 Pam American Games, Mexico, 3 United States Crews Capture Gold Medals at Pan-Am Games, Men's coxed pairs, New York Times, October 19, 1975〕 In the Spring of 1976, his pair with coxswain trained at the Ratzeburger Ruderclub in Ratzeburg, GE, the center for elite rowing in West Germany. At the International Wedau Regatta in Duisburg, GE, they won the coxed pair event and received a medal of the seal of Duisburg in their event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Regattabahn Duisburg International Wedau Regatta )〕 He is a member of Yankee Rowing Club and in 2007, at age 56, he won the Blackburn Challenge, Gloucester, MA, rowing in the Touring Class Single, Sliding Seat in a 20+ mile open ocean race circumnavigating Cape Ann.〔http://www.blackburnchallenge.com〕 He is currently employed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, MA as a Facility Manager.〔http://www.umass.edu/peoplefinder/#name=john+mathews〕 == Rowing == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Albert Mathews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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