Norman Lane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norman Lane

Canoe racer

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 06-Aug-2014

Profession: university teacher, canoeist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

See also Norlane, Victoria, named after Norman Lane, an Australian servicemanNorman D.
Lane (November 6, 1919 – August 6, 2014) was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the C-1 10,000 m event at London in 1948.
He competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and finished fifth.
His brother Ken Lane was a medallist at the 1952 Games in sprint canoe. Born in Toronto in 1919, Lane earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, and was a distinguished professor of Mathematics at McMaster University from 1952 to 1987.
He and his wife, Doris, had five sons: Douglas, Brian, Stephen, Alan, and Christopher.
Lane died in Hamilton, Ontario on August 6, 2014, aged 94.