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| Full name | David Henry Wight | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
| Born | July 28, 1934 London, Great Britain | |||||||||||||
| Died | November 9, 2017 (aged 83) | |||||||||||||
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David Henry "Dave" Wight (born July 28, 1934 in London, died November 9, 2017), was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. [1]
He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in eights with the American team. [2]
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