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Archibald MacKinnon

Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	Coxless four
	1960 Rome	Eight
Commonwealth Games
	1958 Cardiff	Eights

Archibald MacKinnon (born January 13, 1937, in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion.

He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Lorne Loomer, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold.

At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, MacKinnon received a gold medal in eights. He received a silver medal in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.

Awards

MacKinnon was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1957, the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, and into University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, together with the other members of the Olympic gold team.

References

1. "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Rowing" Archived December 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Archie MacKinnon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016.
3. "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Rowing" Archived September 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
4. "Canada's Sports Hall of Fame". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on November 11, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
5. "1956 UBC VRC Coxless Fours" – BC Sports Hall of Fame (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
6. "1956 UBC Four Oared Rowing Crew" Archived March 31, 2005, at the Wayback Machine – University of British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)

External links

• Archibald MacKinnon at World Rowing
• Archibald MacKinnon at Team Canada
• Archibald MacKinnon at Olympics.com
• Archibald MacKinnon at Olympic.org (archived)
• Archie MacKinnon at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
• Archie MacKinnon at Olympedia (archive)
• A.A. MacKinnon at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)

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