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Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:28 p.m.

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Yalies snag three medals in Beijing

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, August 29, 2008

BEIJING, China ­­­­— A handful of Yale-bred athletes were among the elite in Beijing this summer.

Five Yale alumni and one current Bulldog participated in athletic competition at this summer’s 29th Olympiad in China.

Sada Jacobson ’06 won two fencing medals — silver and bronze — and Josh West ’98 rowed with the British eight to a silver-medal finish.

Thomas Barrows ’10, current captain of the sailing team, represented the U.S. Virgin Islands in his 21st-place finish in the Laser class.

Athletics Director Tom Beckett said the Bulldog representation in...

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