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
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Danny Nightingale
Robert Daniel "Danny" Nightingale (born 21 May 1954) 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 Adrian Parker
Adrian Parker (born ...
and
Jim Fox.
[1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Modern Pentathlon]
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 10 November 2008) 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.
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1951 births
Living people
British male modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes for Great Britain
Modern pentathletes at the 1976 Summer Olympics
English Olympic medallists
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon
Athletes from London
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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