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| Full name | Nicholas Stuart Holmes-Smith | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 October 1958 Penticton, British Columbia, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
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Nicholas Stuart Holmes-Smith (born 14 October 1958) is a Canadian equestrian. [1] He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. [2]
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.
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