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Ran Laurie (English) Identifiers. Freebase ID /m/02pvt41. 1 reference. stated in. Freebase Data Dumps. publication date. 28 October 2013. Olympedia people ID. 37367. 0 references. Olympic.org athlete ID (archived) william-laurie. 0 references. Olympics.com athlete ID. william-laurie. 0 references.
Ran Laurie, who was educated at Monkton Combe and Selwyn College, Cambridge, established a fine reputation as stroke when he was an undergraduate. He was in the winning Cambridge eight for three successive years and in the last tow years, 1935 and 1936, he was the stroke.
During the 1935 and 1936 races, he rowed alongside Ran Laurie, who became his rowing partner after Cambridge and a lifelong friend. After graduating from University, Wilson took a post as a District Commissioner with the Sudan Political Service, missing an opportunity to participate alongside Laurie in Britain’s Eights boat at the 1936 Olympics.
27 de abr. de 2022 · William George Ranald Mundell Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998), known as Ran Laurie, was a British physician, rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist. His younger son is the actor and writer Hugh Laurie. Rowing career. Ran Laurie was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire in 1915. A member of Leander rowing club, Laurie began his ...
Ran Laurie, né le 6 juin 1915 à Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, Royaume-Uni, mort le 19 septembre 1998 à Hethersett, Comté de Norfolk, est un rameur britannique, qui remporte la médaille d'or en aviron aux Jeux olympiques de 1948 à Londres (en deux sans barreur avec Jack Wilson. Il est docteur en médecine et le père de l'acteur Hugh Laurie.
Ran Laurie and Jack Wilson were British establishment through and through. University friends who first met at Cambridge, the pair rowed together in The Boat Race, the annual rowing duel between Oxford and its historic rivals Cambridge, from 1934 to 1936. Laurie competed in the 1936 Olympic Games, as stroke, but Britain missed out on a medal as the boat came home fourth.
Ran Laurie won the coxless pairs rowing event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Hugh followed in his father's footsteps by rowing for Cambridge University in the 1980 edition of the annual Oxford versus Cambridge Boat Race. Hugh could possibly have gone even further in the sport, ...
