Craig Rowland (born 30 June 1971) is a squash coach and former professional squash player from

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. As a player, he reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 7 in 1996. He won a gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 1998

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, partnering Michelle Martin. Rowland was also runner-up in the men's doubles at the inaugural

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World Doubles Squash Championships in 1997, partnering with Dan Jenson against winners Chris Walker-Mark Cairns of England (15-11, 15-13). He is also a friend of cricketing legend Paul Hoffman. Craig has also been very successful in the World Masters Squash, winning the

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2012—Birmingham in the M40 division in a victory over Nick Taylor of England (11-6, 11-5, 5-11, 11-7) and the

2014—Hong Kong again champion in the M40 division over Zuko Kubukeli of South Africa (11-4, 11-13, 11-2, 11-4). Other notable achievements: Runner Up in the 1996

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in New York. In the semi-final Craig stunned the squash world by winning in straight games over the great

Jansher Khan Jansher Khan (Pashto: جان شیر خان; born 15 June 1969) is a Pakistani former professional squash player. During his career, he won the World Open a record eight times and the British Open six times. He was the world's number-one-r ...

. He went into the final to play Jonathon Power and lost in a marathon five games (15-4, 9-15, 15-10, 16-17, 15-9)
1996 TOC: Rowland VS Power Highlights
Semi-final of the 1995 Men's World Open Squash Championship in Nicosia, Cyprus. The event was won by Jansher Khan of Pakistan, his seventh Men's World Open Squash title; Quarter-final of the 1996 Men's World Open Squash Championship in Lahore, Pakistan, where he faced

Peter Nicol Peter Nicol (born 5 April 1973) is a former professional squash player from Scotland, who represented first Scotland and then England in international squash. In 1998, while still competing for Scotland, he became the first player from the UK ...

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* 1971 births Living people Australian male squash players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in squash Commonwealth Games squash players for Australia Squash players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Rockhampton Sportsmen from Queensland {{Australia-squash-bio-stub