{"id":12230,"date":"2011-09-18T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T01:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/mark-evans-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:36:37","slug":"mark-evans","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/mark-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le rameur Mark Evans a fait partie de l\u2019\u00e9quipage du huit masculin \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1984-los-angeles\/\">Los Angeles 1984<\/a> et a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la finale fut la plus enlevante en aviron \u00e0 ces Jeux. Le Canada et les \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e9taient nez \u00e0 nez sur pratiquement toute la course et les Canadiens, qui \u00e9taient arriv\u00e9s deuxi\u00e8mes en ronde pr\u00e9liminaire et en rep\u00eachage, ont devanc\u00e9 les favoris de la foule en les devan\u00e7ant par seulement 0.42 seconde pour d\u00e9crocher la m\u00e9daille d\u2019or. Bien que l\u2019\u00e9quipage n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 ensemble que pour 1984, Evans et ses co\u00e9quipiers Dean Crawford, son fr\u00e8re jumeau <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/mike-evans\/\">Mike Evans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/blair-horn\/\">Blair Horn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/grant-main\/\">Grant Main<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/brian-mcmahon\/\">Brian McMahon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/kevin-neufeld\/\">Kevin Neufeld<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/paul-steele\/\">Paul Steele <\/a>et <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/pat-turner\/\">Pat Turner<\/a> avaient chacun concouru au sein d\u2019autres \u00e9quipages avant 1984. Il s\u2019agissait de la premi\u00e8re m\u00e9daille d\u2019or olympique du Canada en aviron depuis celle remport\u00e9e par <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/george-hungerford\/\">George Hungerford<\/a>&nbsp;et&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/roger-jackson\/\">Roger Jackson<\/a>&nbsp;au deux de pointe sans barreur \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1964-tokyo\/\">Tokyo 1964<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1978, alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tudiait en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Queen\u2019s, Evans a \u00e9t\u00e9 encourag\u00e9 par son fr\u00e8re \u00e0 le rejoindre, ce dernier ayant besoin d\u2019un co\u00e9quipier en deux de pointe. Ensemble, ils ont repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Canada aux Championnats du monde de 1981 (sixi\u00e8mes) et de 1983 (cinqui\u00e8mes). Il a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Oxford et a ram\u00e9 pour leurs \u00e9quipages gagnants dans le r\u00e9put\u00e9 duel contre l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Cambridge en 1983 et 1984. Apr\u00e8s les Jeux de Los Angeles en 1984, Evans s\u2019est retir\u00e9 de la comp\u00e9tition, mais il a poursuivi son parcours comme officiel d\u2019aviron et a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 des courses de cat\u00e9gorie des ma\u00eetres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apr\u00e8s avoir d\u00e9croch\u00e9 un dipl\u00f4me de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Oxford, Evans est all\u00e9 travailler pour Goldman Sachs, quittant \u00e9ventuellement la banque d\u2019investissement pour le secteur du capital-risque en s\u2019installant \u00e0 Londres au Royaume-Uni. Son fils a ram\u00e9 pour l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Oxford. Son p\u00e8re, D<sup>r<\/sup> John Evans, \u00e9tait un innovateur en m\u00e9decine et en affaires.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evans et le reste de l\u2019\u00e9quipage gagnant de la m\u00e9daille d\u2019or de 1984 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9s au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Colombie-Britannique en 1985, au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 2003 et au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e de l\u2019aviron canadien en 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le rameur Mark Evans a fait partie de l\u2019\u00e9quipage du huit masculin \u00e0 Los Angeles 1984 et a particip\u00e9 \u00e0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150022,"template":"","tags":[191456062,415966755,9114162],"hof-categories":[],"year-inducted":[],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[392824],"game":[2200323],"team":[415983557],"event":[181822689],"province":[],"class_list":["post-12230","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1984-los-angeles-2","tag-aviron","tag-medaille-dor","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-aviron","game-1984-los-angeles","team-los-angeles-1984-aviron","event-huit-en-pointe-avec-barreur-hommes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/1984-mens-8-rowing-e1549904890330.jpg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["1984 los angeles","aviron","M\u00e9daille d'Or"],"sport_names":[515],"game_names":["Los Angeles 1984"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Los Angeles 1984 Aviron"],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"1","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"Toronto, Ontario","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"August 16, 1957","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/12230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/12230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195524,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/12230\/revisions\/195524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}