Andrew Clough

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Andrew Clough (5 January 1970 in Nottingham - 4 July 2007 in Melbourne) was a British slalom canoer who competed in the early-to-mid 1990s.

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Early life

He grew up on Main Street in Normanton on Soar but trained at Mansfield Canoe Club. [1] [2]

Both him and his older brother, Iain Clough, attended Harry Carlton School in East Leake. [3] He went to the University of Leeds, to study chemical engineering.

Career

He finished 12th in the C-2 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Personal life

He died in a car accident in Australia in 2007. [4] At the time he was working as a chemical engineer for ModuSpec in Melbourne. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Mansfield & Sutton Recorder Thursday 6 February 1986, page 35
  2. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 7 August 1987, page 75
  3. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 6 February 1987, page 61
  4. ↑ "PaddleVIC".
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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