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David R Young is a male former rower who competed for England.
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David R Young is a male former rower who competed for England.
He represented England and won a gold medal in the coxless four at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. [1] [2] All four of the gold medal winning crew rowed for the National Provincial Bank Rowing Club. [3]
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James Bruce Tomkins, is an Australian rower, seven-time World Champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is Australia's most awarded oarsman, having made appearances at six Olympic games ; eleven World Championships ; four Rowing World Cups and eighteen state representative King's Cup appearances – the Australian blue riband men's VIII event,. Tomkins is one of only five Australian athletes and four rowers worldwide to compete at six Olympics. From 1990 to 1998 he was the stroke of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.
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