Adrian Parker
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| Born | 2 March 1951 Croydon, London, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Adrian Parker (born 2 March 1951) is a British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.[1]
He won a team gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, with Danny Nightingale and Jim Fox.[2] He finished 5th in individual modern pentathlon at the 1976 Olympics. Parker won the final event, the cross-country, with an "outstanding run", which helped Britain to win the gold medal.[1] Parker had been the British pentathlon champion in 1975.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Adrian Parker Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ 1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Modern Pentathlon Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 November 2008)
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