Charles Grimes (rower)

Charles Grimes (rower)
Medal record
Men’s rowing
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold 1956 Melbourne Men's eights

Charles Livingston Grimes (July 9, 1935 – February 5, 2007) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.

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Biography

Early life

Grimes was the son of Charles Pennebaker Grimes and Louise Davis Ireland Grimes.

Education

Grimes was prepared at Groton. He graduated from Yale University in 1957 and had an LL.B. from Harvard Law.

He played varsity football and basketball at Yale. Grimes accelerated his four-year course of study, graduating half way through his senior year. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, for one year after Yale.

College and Olympics

Grimes competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in eights with the American rowing team.[1]

Grimes was physically imposing[2] and powered the 1956 gold medal Olympic crew in Melbourne where he pulled so much water on his side that there was a problem balancing the boat. That team was the last university team to bring home the gold.

Later in life

"Grimes graduated from Yale in 1957 and from Harvard Law School in 1960. After a brief law career, he worked as an independent financial advisor and investor."[3]

Grimes was also the plaintiff in the Grimes v. Donald, 673 A.2d 1207 (Del. 1996), one of the landmark Delaware corporations cases.[4]

Wife Jane Brown Grimes is the second female Chairperson and President of the USTA.

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