Great Olympians

Biographies - TEW


James Dinsmore "Jim" Tew, III

B. 1944-10-29, New York, NY, USA
Rowing
1964 HP
Men's Coxed Fours 7th 300
300


Lewis Tewanima

Olympic Competitor nr 4539


Sayed Tewfik El-Sayed

B. 1942-08-30, represented Egypt
Basketball
1972 HP
Men's Team 16th 3.2
3.2


Sandra Tewkesbury

B. 1942-02-14, Chatham, Ont., Canada; D. 1962-06-05
Figure Skating
1960 HP
Women's Individual 10th 150
150


(John) Walter (Beardsley) Tewksbury

B. 1876-03-21, Ashley, Pa., USA; D. 1968-04-25, Tunkhannock, Pa.
Athletics - Track and Field (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1900 HP
Men's 60 metres silver 4000
Men's 100 metres silver 4000
Men's 200 metres gold 6400
Men's 200 m Hurdles bronze 2560
Men's 400 m Hurdles gold 6400
23360

He brought the ability of a top-class sprinter to the rather underdeveloped 400-metres hurdles, previously tought of as a European speciality.
After graduating from University in 1899 as a dentist, he returned to Pennsylvania and would never have been heard of again, but for a piece of coincidence. The US Olympic coach visited Tunckhannock in search of early american glassware, of which the Tewksburies had a large collection.
He was unable to find a hurdles stretch near his home town so he trained in the cemetary, hurdling over gravestones.
He would practice dentistry until 1946 and visited the Roma Olympics as a tourist, aged 84.

Olympic Competitor nr 814


Andreas Tews

B. 1968-09-11, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, represented the German DR in 1988
Boxing (1 gold, 1 silver)
1988 1992 HP
Flyweight silver 15600
Featherweight gold
15600


Written 2000-12-14 - last modified 2021-11-02

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