The 1984 Men's Eight Rowing Team was a Canadian rowing team that won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games

1984 Summer Olympics

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The members of the 1984 Men's Eight Rowing Team were Blair Horn

Blair Horn

Blair Horn is a former Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He was also a graduate of Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia.-References:*...

, Dean Crawford

Dean Crawford

Dean Crawford is a Canadian rower. He began rowing in 1978 and won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the men's eight event.-References:*...

, Michael Evans

Michael Evans (rower)

Michael Evans is a Canadian rower.He was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. His twin brother Mark was on the same winning team...

, Paul Steele

Paul Steele

Paul Steele is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Also was a member of the Canadian men's four rowing team for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul...

, Grant Main

Grant Main

Grant Main is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:*...

, Mark Evans

Mark Evans (rower)

Mark Evans is a Canadian rower.Evans was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA. His twin brother Michael was on the same winning team.-References:*...

, Kevin Neufeld

Kevin Neufeld

Kevin Neufeld is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-References:*...

, Pat Turner

Pat Turner

Patrick "Pat" Turner is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-References:*...

 and Brian McMahon

Brian McMahon

Brian McMahon is a Canadian rower, who was the coxswain of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-References:*...

 (cox). The team, coached by Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell (rower)

Neil William Campbell, CM was a Canadian rower. He started his rowing life with the St. Catharines Rowing Club in 1952. He competed in the Coxless Four at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and the Eight with Cox at the 1968 Summer Olympics.In 1967 he became head Rowing coach at Ridley College, St....

 (a rowing Olympian in 1964

1964 Summer Olympics

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 and 1968

1968 Summer Olympics

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), came together in 1984 and won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, warding off a furious last minute challenge from the home-crowd favourites, the team from the USA.

This win represented the first time that the Canadian men's eight won an Olympic or World Championship gold medal. That same year this team also won gold at the Lucerne International Regatta in Switzerland at which all the rowing nations of the era (including the Soviet Union and East Germany) were present. Although the crew only came together in 1984, members of the crew had competed individually in other crews before 1984. Among their ranks were Pan American Games

Pan American Games

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 medallists, World Junior Championships medallists and medallists in several other prestigious events such as the Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta

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The success of this crew laid the foundation for numerous Canadian Olympic and World Championship victories in the men's and women's eights that followed.

Honours

• In 1985, inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame
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• In 2003, inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.