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| Born | (1951-03-02) 2 March 1951 (age 73) 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.
He won a team gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, with Danny Nightingale and Jim Fox. 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. Parker had been the British pentathlon champion in 1975.
References
- ^ "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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