{"id":3952920,"date":"2024-05-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/?p=3952920"},"modified":"2024-05-23T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:47:28","slug":"olympic-gold-medal-won-boys-in-the-boat-rower-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3952920\/olympic-gold-medal-won-boys-in-the-boat-rower-auctioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic gold medal won by &#8216;Boys in the Boat&#8217; rower to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Olympic gold medal won by a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3944333\/movie-review-clooneys-boys-in-the-boat-both-stirring-and-a-tad-stodgy\/\">Boys in the Boat<\/a>&#8221; rower will be auctioned in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>John White, known as &#8220;Johnny,&#8221; rowed for the University of Washington (UW) when they won gold in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/john-galbraith-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Olympics website<\/a>, White graduated in metallurgical engineering. He then worked in sales for Bethlehem Steel.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Boys in the Boat&#8221; film highlights White &#8212; played by Tom Varey &#8212; and his crew&#8217;s journey from junior varsity to the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on the film<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3944333\/movie-review-clooneys-boys-in-the-boat-both-stirring-and-a-tad-stodgy\/\">Clooney\u2019s \u2018Boys in the Boat\u2019 both stirring and a tad stodgy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3935775\/uws-iconic-the-boys-in-the-boat-row-team-subject-film-george-clooney\/\">George Clooney directed the movie<\/a> and filmed parts of it on the UW campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Set against the backdrop of the Depression Era, the film highlights the determination and resilience of the eight-man crew and their coxswain, who overcame adversity to achieve Olympic glory,&#8221; wrote a news release from <a href=\"https:\/\/greyflannelauctions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grey Flannel Auctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first trailer was released in October and the film came out last December:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This Christmas, the race is on. Watch the official trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBoysInTheBoat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBoysInTheBoat<\/a>, from director George Clooney, starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner. Based on the best-selling book on the inspirational true story of the 1936 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UW<\/a> rowing team. Only in theaters this Christmas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q76B6dfvUw\">pic.twitter.com\/Q76B6dfvUw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MGM Studios (@mgmstudios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mgmstudios\/status\/1714672759526297632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The film is based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danieljamesbrown.com\/books\/the-boys-in-the-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times bestselling book by Daniel James Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The narrative follows the underdog crew as they defeat rivals and ultimately emerge victorious over the world&#8217;s best rowers, defying Hitler&#8217;s orchestrated display of German superiority,&#8221; wrote the news release.<\/p>\n<p>According to Grey Flannel Auctions, White came from a family who faced hardships. His determination to prove himself shined in his rowing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnny&#8217;s determination, fueled by familial expectations, propels him to become a gold medalist rower, embodying the spirit of the underdog nation,&#8221; wrote the news release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More history of the rowing team<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3946039\/mystery-stretches-from-cedar-river-ghost-town-to-boys-in-the-boat\/\">Mystery stretches from Cedar River ghost town to \u201cBoys in the Boat\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gold medal will also come with a &#8220;letter of provenance&#8221; from White&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Grey Flannel Auctions is a family-owned company in Scottsdale, Arizona, specializing in jerseys and memorabilia. It offers jerseys from Gretzky to baseballs signed by Babe Ruth.<\/p>\n<p>The company will begin the bidding for the gold medal in April and end in May, with a starting bid of $10,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>Julia Dallas is a content editor at MyNorthwest. You can read her stories <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/author\/julia-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Follow Julia on X, formerly known as Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judallas111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and email her <a href=\"mailto:jdallas@bonneville.com\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":25,"protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3952950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[50,66500],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gold medal won by &#039;Boys in the Boat&#039; rower to be auctioned<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John White, one of &quot;The Boys in the Boat,&quot; rowed for the University of Washington when they won gold in 1936 Berlin.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3952920\/olympic-gold-medal-won-boys-in-the-boat-rower-auctioned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gold medal won by &#039;Boys in the Boat&#039; 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