Adrian Parker
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Born | Croydon, London, England | 2 March 1951|||||||||||||
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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.[3] Parker had been the British pentathlon champion in 1975.[4]
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)
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040518/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/adrian-parker-1.html. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040518/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/adrian-parker-1.html. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- British male modern pentathletes
- Olympic modern pentathletes of Great Britain
- Modern pentathletes at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon
- Sportspeople from London
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- European modern pentathlon biography stubs
- British sportspeople stubs
- British Olympic medallist stubs