MARION, Mass. (AP) – Andrew Sudduth, who rowed on eight national and Olympic teams in the 1980s and won four medals at the World Rowing Championships, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 44.

Sudduth, who grew up in Exeter, N.H., and lived in Stow, rowed on the eight-man team that won silver in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He also won singles sculling events in five separate Head of the Charles regattas.

“He was one of the best rowers in the United States and certainly one of the greatest Harvard oarsmen ever,” Harvard men’s rowing coach Harry Parker told The Boston Globe. “He had quite an extraordinary record.”

Friends said Sudduth approached his computer work with the same passion he brought to rowing.

“He was technically one of the most brilliant people I ever worked with,” said Brian Shorey, a friend who was Sudduth’s boss at Cisco Systems Inc., where he worked until recently. “His mind went a mile a minute and it was tough to keep up with him.”

Sudduth was born in Baltimore and grew up in Exeter. He began rowing at Philips Exeter Academy. Sudduth and his former wife, Saiya Remmler, of Lexington, have two daughters, Zoe and Sophie.

Sudduth was diagnosed with cancer last fall and remarried in January to Ruth Kennedy Sudduth. He died Saturday at his family’s summer home in Marion, his wife said.

Sudduth is also survived two brothers; his mother, Sharlie Sudduth of Marion; his father and stepmother, S. Scott and Gail Sudduth of Newfields, N.H.; and a sister, Jennifer Sudduth Walsh of Newton.

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