Dickie Burnell
Olympic athlete
1917 – 1995
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Who was Dickie Burnell?
Richard "Dickie" Desborough Burnell was an English rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal alongside Bertram "Bertie" Bushnell in the double sculls. He and his father Charles Burnell are the only father and son in Olympic history to have won gold medals in rowing.
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- Born
- Jul 26, 1917
Henley-on-Thames - Also known as
- Richard Desborough Burnell
- Education
- Eton College
- University of Oxford
- Lived in
- Henley-on-Thames
- Died
- Jan 29, 1995
Henley-on-Thames
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on July 23, 2013
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