Zeke Sanborn was a member of the rowing team for the United States

United States at the Olympics

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 at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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 in Antwerp. He would win a gold medal in men's coxed eights.

Biography

Sanborn was born Alden Reamer Sanborn on May 22, 1899 in Jefferson, Wisconsin

Jefferson, Wisconsin

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. He attended college at Beloit College

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 and the United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Academy

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, where after graduating in 1922, he would serve in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 until 1951, retiring as a captain

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. Later, he would also attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. He died on December 1, 1991 in Charlotte Hall, Maryland

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