Jack Beresford Jack Beresford Jack Beresford, CBE (1 January 1899 – 3 December 1977), initially Jack Beresford-Wiszniewski, was a British rower who won five medals at five Olympic Games in succession. This record in Olympic rowing was not matched until 1996 when Sir Steve Redgrave won his sixth Olympic medal at his fifth Olympic Games. Jack Beresford was the son of Julius Beresford. The family name was Wisniewski but his father dropped the name after Beresford was born. Julius Beresford was also a rower who won an Olympic silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics as well as
Campbell Johnstone (rower) Campbell Johnstone (rower) Campbell Johnstone is an Australian former lightweight rower. He won Australia's first rowing World Championship title – a gold medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne in the lightweight men's coxless four. Johnstone's senior rowing was with the Melbourne University Boat Club. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1972 he won a national championship title in the lightweight eight. Johnstone was selected in Victorian state representative lightweight fours to race the Penrith Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships for six consecutive years from 1970 to 1975. Those crews won the interstate championship on five consecutive