Medal, Commemorative

Object/Artifact

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Shanaman Sports Museum

Name/Title

Medal, Commemorative

Entry/Object ID

0332L

Description

Jim Fifer was a Stadium High School and Stanford University graduate who went on to become an Olympic rowing champion. Fifer graduated from Stadium and went on to star at Stanford where he was named a team captain in 1952. Fifer became an Olympian for the first time in 1952, losing in the semifinals of the pairs with coxswain competition. Fifer and partner Duvall Hecht won the U.S. Olympic Trials in an upset and then earned the 1956 Olympic gold in Melbourne, Australia. In 1986 Stanford established the James T. Fifer Trophy for the winner of the mens’ event at the Redwood Shores-Stanford Rowing Classic. Fifer, whose medal is on loan by Mary Ellen Fifer, was inducted into the Tacoma Pierce-County Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Made/Created

Date made

1956

Lexicon

Search Terms

Rowing, Olympics, Documentary Artifact

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Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Fifer, Jim

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rowing

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Stadium High School

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Stanford University

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Olympics

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Hecht, Duvall

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U.S. Olympic Trials

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Melbourne, Australia

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Fifer, Mary Ellen

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Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame