Richard Gordon McBride Budgett
OBE (born 20 March 1959) is a
British
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Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee. He won an Olympic
rowing
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gold medal in
coxed four
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at the
1984 Summer Olympics
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in
Los Angeles
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. He was chief medical officer at the London
2012 Summer Olympics
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.
Rowing career
Budgett was born in 1959 in
Glasgow
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.
He studied medicine at
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Hermes Club, and the
Middlesex Hospital
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University of London and read his MSc in Sports Medicine at
Queen Mary College
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,
University of London
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.
Budgett won the coxed pairs title with
Tom Cadoux-Hudson and
Adrian Ellison
Adrian Charles Ellison (born 11 September 1958) is a British retired rowing cox.
Rowing career
Ellison won the coxed pairs title with Tom Cadoux-Hudson and Richard Budgett and the coxed fours title with Cadoux-Hudson, Steve King, Geraint Fulle ...
and the coxed fours title with Cadoux-Hudson, Steve King, Geraint Fuller and Ellison, rowing for Tyrian and
London University
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composites, at the
1982 National Rowing Championships.
Budgett was part of the British
coxed four
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The crew consists of four rowers, each having one ...
that won the gold medal at the
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
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, alongside
Steve Redgrave
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,
Martin Cross
Martin Patrick Cross (born 19 July 1957) is a British retired oarsman, and current teacher.
Early life and education
Born in London, Cross was educated at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School He studied at Queen Mary, University of London, rowing ...
,
Andy Holmes
Andrew John Holmes MBE (15 October 1959 – 24 October 2010) , and Adrian Ellison (cox).
Medical career
He next attended the
Winter Olympics
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in
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
and
1994
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as the doctor for the British bob-sleigh team. He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
,
2002
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and
2006 Winter Olympics
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, and led the Team GB HQ medical team at the
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
and
2008 Summer Olympics
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. He was Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute.
[ He was appointed as CMO to the 2012 Games in February 2007.
He was appointed Medical and Scientific Director of the ]International Olympic Committee
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in April 2012, to commence in the following October.[News Item]
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, 13 April 2012, accessed 31 March 2013. He is currently part of The Prohibited List Expert Group of WADA (World Anti-doping Agency).
See also
* Selwyn College Boat Club
*Queen Mary, University of London Boat Club
]
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Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, although a faculty of Queen Mary, have their own boat club: St B ...
References
External links
Interview 1 April 2007
BBC News
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Accessed 20 July 2009
olympics.org.uk
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1959 births
Living people
British male rowers
Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta
Olympic medalists in rowing
Scottish Olympic competitors
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
British sports physicians
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