John Nunn '64 Inducted to NRF Hall of Fame

The National Rowing Foundation has announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2024! The Induction Ceremony is set to occur at the NRF US Team Reunion tent at the Head of the Charles Regatta on Saturday, October 19th @ 3pm.

The Hall of Fame is nothing new to John having been inducted to the Cornell Hall of Fame in 2008. Additionally, John is a member of the 1962 heavyweight crew featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and displayed prominently on the wall of the stairs in the John Collyer, Class of 1917, Boathouse.

As a member of the class of 1964, Nunn rowed in the No. 4 seat with the varsity heavyweight crew that won IRA titles in 1962 and '63. The '63 crew was undefeated in U.S. collegiate competition and upset the world champion Ratzeburg Club of West Germany in the Eastern Sprint trials before reaching the final. The varsity heavyweights went on to row in the Henley Royal Regatta, reaching the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup. He rowed in the No. 6 seat on the varsity that placed third at the '64 IRAs. He won three varsity letters (1962-63-64). After graduation, Nunn rowed for the Long Beach (Calif.) Rowing Club. He was the national champion in double sculls in 1967 and won the silver medal in the single scull at the Pan American Games in '67. Nunn won a bronze medal as the stroke of the double scull at the 1968 Olympic Games and served as the U.S. Men’s Sculling Coach at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

To read more about John’s impressive rowing carrer, check out his son, Jack’s, recounting HERE.

John is being inducted alongside Steve Gladstone, Kent Mitchell, Charlotte Geer, and the 1984 Olympic Silver Medal Women’s Quadruple Sculls (Anne R. Marden Grainger, Lisa D. Rohde, Joan Lind Van Blom, Virginia Anne Gilder, Kelly Rickon Mitchell).

Join us in celebrating John and the other Hall of Fame inductees on Saturday October 19th @ 3pm in the NRF US Team Reunion Tent at the Head of the Charles!