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Born | Folkestone, Kent, England [1] | 16 April 1958
David Gillow (born 16 April 1958) is a Zimbabwean former cyclist. [2] He was born in Folkestone, Kent, and moved to Rhodesia at the age of 13 [1] where he fought in the Rhodesian Civil War as a helicopter gunner. [3]
Gillow was a competive cyclist in Zimbabwe, and in 1980 was one was of the first Zimbabwean cyclists to appear at the Olympic Games, together with Michael McBeath and John Musa. [1] [4] He competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 Summer Olympics, [5] [6] [7] being granted two weeks of leave from his army job. [8] His daughter Shara Gillow competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics for Australia. [6] [9]
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)... fueled by the dedication of trailblazers like Michael McBeath, John Musa, and David Gillow. This trio, defying limitations, became the first Zimbabwean cyclists to grace the Olympic stage in Moscow 1980