William Gilmore (rower)

William Evans Garrett Gilmore ( born February 16, 1895 in Wayne, † December 5, 1969 in Philadelphia ) was an American rowers.

William Gilmore (also Garrett Gilmore ) began in 1919 at the Bachelors Barge Club with the rowing. A year later, he won his first race. During his career he won five national titles in one and even more in the double sculls. In 1924 he took in Paris for the first time in the Olympic Summer Games. Gilmore had in the one - finals only to the British rowing legend Jack Beresford beaten. Only eight years later, he took part for the second time in the Olympic Games. In Los Angeles he appeared in was comparatively continue to paced age of 37, together with Kenneth Myers and won the double sculls with this title before the representatives from Germany. Gilmore worked as a real estate agent.