Danny Nightingale
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| Birth name | Robert Daniel Nightingale | |||||||||||||
| Born | 21 May 1954 Redruth, Cornwall, England | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Modern pentathlon | |||||||||||||
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Robert Daniel "Danny" Nightingale (born 21 May 1954) 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 Adrian Parker and Jim Fox.[2]
Nightingale was the British pentathlon champion in 1976, 1977, and 1978.[3][4] He later became the Development Officer for the Modern Pentathlon Association.[5][6]
Nightingale used to work as a PE teacher at Rye Hills secondary school.
References[]
- ^ "Danny Nightingale Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
- ^ 1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Modern Pentathlon Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 November 2008)
- ^ https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/34796. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20161203172357/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/danny-nightingale-1.html. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/34796. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20161203172357/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/danny-nightingale-1.html. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
External links[]
- Danny Nightingale at Olympedia
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