Tony Johnson was one-half of what may be America’s greatest ever pair without. In 1967, together with Larry Hough, he won the Pan American Games, the National Championship, the North American Championship, and the European Championship. Johnson also won U.S. championships in the pairs without in 1963, 1965, and 1968, in the pairs with in 1967 and, rowing for the Potomac BC, in the 1965 eight-oared shell. He competed in the 1964 Olympics in the coxless pairs with Jim Edmonds, but they failed to make the finals. At Mexico City in 1968, Johnson and Hough were thought to have a good shot at a gold medal, but lost by inches to an East German pair. Johnson graduated from Syracuse University and later became the head crew coach at Yale.
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