Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1252LDescription
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, 1956Place
Location
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, AustraliaLexicon
Search Terms
Rowing, OlympicsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Fifer, JimPerson or Organization
Hecht, DuvallPerson or Organization
Brundage, AveryRelated Events
Event
1956 Summer Olympics