Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1252L

Description

Stadium High graduate Jim Fifer, left, and Duvall Hecht, center, of Beverly Hills, California, are congratulated by International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage after winning gold in the coxless pairs rowing event at the 1956 Olympics in Australia. The race was staged on Lake Wendouree near Melbourne. Fife and Hecht (who went on to found Books on Tape) were teammates at Stanford and were members of a pairs-with-coxswain team that advanced to the semifinals at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki..

Made/Created

Date made

Nov 27, 1956

Place

Location

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia

Lexicon

Search Terms

Rowing, Olympics

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Fifer, Jim

Person or Organization

Hecht, Duvall

Person or Organization

Brundage, Avery

Related Events

Event

1956 Summer Olympics