{"id":18012,"date":"2011-09-18T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/waynne-pretty-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:02:19","slug":"waynne-pretty","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/waynne-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Wayne Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le rameur Donald Wayne Pretty \u00e9tait membre du huit de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique (UBC) qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi pour repr\u00e9senter le Canada \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1956-melbourne\/\">Melbourne 1956<\/a>. Seulement la moiti\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9quipe poss\u00e9dait une r\u00e9elle exp\u00e9rience en aviron et avec une ann\u00e9e seulement pour se pr\u00e9parer pour les Jeux, ils ont b\u00e2ti une \u00e9quipe comp\u00e9titive qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 une menace pour l\u2019or olympique. Pretty a remport\u00e9 une m\u00e9daille d\u2019argent pour le Canada, finissant derri\u00e8re les Am\u00e9ricains par seulement deux secondes, avec ses co\u00e9quipiers <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/david-helliwell\/\">David Helliwell<\/a>, Philip Kueber,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/richard-mcclure\/\">Richard McClure<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/douglas-mcdonald\/\">Douglas McDonald<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/william-mckerlich\/\">Bill McKerlich<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/carlton-ogawa\/\">Carl Ogawa<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/lawrence-west\/\">Lawrence West<\/a>&nbsp;et&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/robert-wilson\/\">Robert Wilson<\/a>. Quatre ans plus tard, il s\u2019est qualifi\u00e9 pour l\u2019\u00e9preuve du deux sans barreur \u00e0 Tokyo 1964, mais il s\u2019est retrouv\u00e9 \u00e0 bord du huit apr\u00e8s que son co\u00e9quipier canadien <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/george-hungerford\/\">George Hungerford<\/a> eut contract\u00e9 une mononucl\u00e9ose, huit mois avant les Jeux, le rendant incapable de participer aux Jeux. Le Canada a pris le neuvi\u00e8me rang de l\u2019\u00e9preuve. Aux Jeux de l\u2019Empire et du Commonwealth britannique de 1958, Pretty a remport\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille d\u2019or \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve du huit avec le barreur <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/sohen-biln\/\">Sohen Biln<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty a grandi \u00e0 Winfield, tout pr\u00e8s de Kelowna, en Colombie-Britannique, et vivait pr\u00e8s de son co\u00e9quipier Don Arnold. Apr\u00e8s avoir pris sa retraite de l\u2019aviron, Pretty a \u00e9t\u00e9 entra\u00eeneur de l\u2019\u00e9quipe nationale, qu\u2019il a guid\u00e9e vers quatre m\u00e9dailles d\u2019argent aux Jeux panam\u00e9ricains de 1967 \u00e0 Winnipeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tout comme ses co\u00e9quipiers de l\u2019\u00e9quipe m\u00e9daill\u00e9e d\u2019argent, Pretty a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 1958, au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Colombie-Britannique en 1976 et au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique en 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le rameur Donald Wayne Pretty \u00e9tait membre du huit de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique (UBC) qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi pour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83203,"template":"","tags":[415966755,9949311,9274940,415984529],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162665],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[392824],"game":[9241357,9241344],"team":[415983550,415983552],"event":[181822689],"province":[415983153],"class_list":["post-18012","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aviron","tag-medaille-dargent","tag-melbourne-1956","tag-tokyo-1964","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162665","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-aviron","game-1956-melbourne","game-1964-tokyo","team-melbourne-1956-aviron","team-tokyo-1964-aviron","event-huit-en-pointe-avec-barreur-hommes","province-colombie-britannique"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/coc_men_ph_1340x754.png","category_names":[],"tag_names":["aviron","M\u00e9daille d'Argent","Melbourne 1956","Tokyo 1964"],"sport_names":[515],"game_names":["Melbourne 1956","Tokyo 1964"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Melbourne 1956 Aviron","Tokyo 1964 Aviron"],"province_names":["Colombie-Britannique"],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"1","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Winfield, Colombie-Britannique","athlete_birthplace":"","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"June 11, 1936","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18012","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195687,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18012\/revisions\/195687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=18012"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=18012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}