Anton (Toni) ROM

Toni Rom was a rower with the German gold medal-winning coxless fours at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He started rowing in coxed eights with Würzburger Ruderverein 1875, with whom he won the German Championship in 1933. From 1934-36 he won the national coxless fours title, and in 1934 and 1935 won the European coxless fours title. He was a member of the Rom family who owned a ladies’ wear department store along with Wagner family in Würzburg.