Marcus McElhenney
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Born | July 27, 1981 (1981-07-27) (age 42) Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcus McElhenney (born July 27, 1981) is an American coxswain and attorney. He won a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 2008 Summer Olympics before a career in law and politics.
Life and career
McElhenney first competed internationally in 2001, representing the United States in Linz, Austria at the Nations' Cup (Under 23 World Championships) where he coxed the men's eight to a silver medal. McElhenney was invited to try out for the 2002 Under 23 World Championship team.
His first major international success at the senior/Olympic level came at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan where he won a gold medal in the coxed four event. A year later at the 2004 World Rowing Championships, he won a bronze medal in the same event. At 2005 World Rowing Championships he coxed both the eights and fours, winning a gold and a silver medal respectively, the first US athlete to have earned two medals at the same World Rowing Championships. In 2007 won both the eights and coxed fours at the 2007 USRowing championships.
McElhenney grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the cousin of actor Rob McElhenney.
He served as principal architect of the coxswain curriculum at Sparks Rowing, a social business that provides the largest amount of coxswain specific programming in the world.[1] McElhenney graduated from the University of San Francisco School of law, and he currently practices law in California.
In 2017, he joined the Trump administration as part of the now-defunct White House Office of American Innovation. When he took the job, he was quoted as saying "Trump is hands down the greatest president we will ever have in our lifetime. He's a train with no brakes, and now I'm the conductor!"[2] As of 2023, he was working as an attorney in California.[3]
Competitive history
Senior
Year | Event | Women's 8+ | Men's 8+ | Men's 4+ | Men's 2+ |
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2003 | World Championships | ||||
Eon Hanse Canal Cup | |||||
Head of the Charles Regatta | |||||
2004 | World Championships | ||||
Eon Hanse Canal Cup | |||||
2005 | World Championships | 1 | |||
Eon Hanse Canal Cup | |||||
2006 | World Championships | ||||
Eon Hanse Canal Cup | |||||
2007 | U.S. Rowing Club & Elite National Championships | ||||
2008 | Olympic Games | ||||
2009 | World Championships | ||||
U.S. Rowing Club & Elite National Championships | |||||
2011 | Pan American Games |
References
External links
- Marcus McElhenney at World Rowing
- Marcus McElhenney at USRowing site at the Wayback Machine (archived August 28, 2008)
- Marcus Mc Elhenney at 2008 Olympics site at the Wayback Machine (archived September 8, 2008)
- Marcus Mc Elhenney at Olympics.com
- Marcus McElhenney at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1962: (Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günter Jordan, cox Frank Steinhäuser)
- 1966: (Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox Poul de Haan)
- 1970: (Ștefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox Ladislau Lovrenschi)
- 1974: (Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, cox Aleksandr Lukyanov)
- 1975: (Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox Bernd Fritsch)
- 1977: (Todor Mrankov, Dimitar Yanakiev, cox Stefan Stoykov)
- 1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Olaf Beyer)
- 1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Georg Spohr)
- 1981: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1983: (Ullrich Dießner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor)
- 1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1986: (Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney)
- 1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox Garry Herbert)
- 1994: (Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, cox Milan Ražov)
- 1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox Antonio Cirillo)
- 1996: (Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox Christophe Tellier)
- 1997: (Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox Brett Hayman)
- 1999: (James Neil, Phil Henry, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox Neil Chugani)
- 2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox Claus Müller-Gattermann)
- 2003: (Matt Rich, Dan Beery, cox Andrew Kelly)
- 2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox Luigi Longobardi)
- 2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox Marc Douez)
- 2006: (Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox Ivan Ninković)
- 2007: (Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox Daniel Trojanowski)
- 2008: (Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox Mark Laidlaw)
- 2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox Marcus McElhenney)
- 2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox David Webster)
- 2011: (Vincenzo Capelli, Pierpaolo Frattini, cox Niccolò Fanchi)
- 2012: (Stanislau Shcharbachenia, Aliaksandr Kazubouski, cox Piotr Piatrynich)
- 2013: (Luca Parlato, Vincenzo Abbagnale, cox Enrico D'Aniello)
- 2014: (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, cox Caleb Shepherd)
- 2015: (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2016: (Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2017: (Adrián Juhász, Béla Simon, cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth)