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
Anne Warner (rower) Anne Warner (rower) Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner (born August 24, 1954) is a lawyer and a rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for the United States. Warner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Five Fields, Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1976 she was a member of the American eight-oared crew which won the bronze medal. Warner qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. In 2007, she received one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. She was a member of four