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Hanlan triumphed in the professional single sculls race at the Centennial Regatta in Philadelphia in 1876. Over the next five years, he dominated numerous major competitions. His crowning achievement was winning the World Championship on November 15, 1880.

Edward "Ned" Hanlan (12 July 1855 – 4 January 1908) was a Canadian professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario. He developed speed and strength by rowing his boat with freshly-caught fish to sell at market before other fishermen arrived to compete.[3][4] By the time Hanlan was a teenager, he was competing in rowing events and he gained his first important success at the age of eighteen, when he became amateur champion of Toronto Bay. Rowing career Strangely enough, of the twelve Championship races that Hanlan rowed none of them was raced in Canada. For further details of the World Title races that Hanlan was involved in see World Sculling Championship. Edward Hanlan of Toronto – Champion Sculler of the World (George Rees, 1880)

Ned Hanlan | The Canadian Encyclopedia "Ned Hanlan." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Marsh, Accessed October 04, 2024, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ned-hanlan Edward "Ned" Hanlan, sculler, (born at Toronto 12 Jul 1855; died there 4 Jan 1908.) Ned Hanlan was the first Canadian athlete to be world champion in an individual event and the first Canadian athlete to gain international recognition. Hanlan won the Canadian championship (and stakes of $1000) in 1877, out-rowing New Brunswicker Wallace Ross in front of 25 000 spectators in Toronto bay. This feat made Ned Hanlan Canada's first world sporting champion in an individual event. In 1926, the City of Toronto dedicated a statue of Ned Hanlan by Emanuel Otto Hahn, on Toronto's waterfront, on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition.