Identified Athletes - GBR
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Print GBR - Hugh Benjamin Cotton, winner of the Boat Race 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895 (reprint)
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Print GBR 1868 °The Race for the Championship of the Thames - the Start°
James Renforth (GBR) versus Harry Kelley (GBR) Nov. 17th, 1868
The umpire stands upright in the bow of an eight
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Print GBR 1908 °Vanity Fair° magazine - Raymond B. Etherington-Smith (GBR), M8+ gold medal winner OG London 1908, president of Cambridge University BC 1899, winner of the Boat Race 1899 + 1900 (reprint)
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Print GBR 1910 °The World° magazine - Duncan Mackinnon, M4- gold medal winner OG London 1908 and winner of the Boat Race 1909,1910 and 1911 for Oxford (reprint)
D. Mackinnon also won five times at Henley Royal regatta in various competitions
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Print GBR 1910 °The World° magazine - E. G. Williams, president of Cambridge University BC and winner of the Boat Race 1908 (reprint)
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Stamp ANG (unautorized) °Sport Records° - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
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Stamp BDI 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
Steve Redgrave won five Olympic gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games:
Los Angeles 1984 (M4+), Seoul 1988 (M2-), Barcelona 1992 (M2-), Atlanta 1996 (M2-) and Sydney 2000 (M4-).
He also won nine gold medals at World Rowing Championships: WRC Nottingham 1986 (M2+), WRC Copenhagen
1987 (M2-), WRC Vienna 1991 (M2-), WRC Radice 1993 (M2-), WRC Indianapolis 1994 (M2-), WRC Tampere
1995 (M2-), WRC Aiguebelette 1997 (M4-), WRC Cologne 1998 (M4-) and WRC St. Catharines 1999 (M4-).
He competed at Henley Royal Regatta for more than two decades winning 17 times in five different events,
among them the Diamond Sculls.
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Stamp BEN 2008 MS °Legendary Athletes at Olympic Games° perforated & imperforated (unauthorized) - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
Steve Redgrave (GBR) won five gold medals in five consecutive Olympic Games:
1984 OG Los Angeles M4+ (with M. Cross, R. Budgett, A. Holmes, cox A. Ellison)
1988 OG Seoul M2- (with A. Holmes)
1992 OG Barcelona M2- (with M. Pinsent)
1996 OG Atlanta M2- (with M. Pinsent)
2000 OG Sydney M4+ (with J. Cracknell, T. Foster, M. Pinsent)
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Stamp BEN 2008 SS perforated & imperforated (unauthorized) - OG Beijing - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
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Stamp BUR 2021 "Olympic rowing champions" (unauthorized issue) - Matthew Pinsent (GBR)
Olympic champion 1992 OG Barcelona (M2-), 1996 OG Atlanta (M2-), 2000 OG Sydney (M4-), 2004 OG Athens (M4-) -
Stamp BUR 2021 "Olympic rowing champions" (unauthorized issue) - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
Olympic champion 1984 OG Los Angeles (M4+), 1988 OG Seoul (M2-), 1992 OG Barcelona (M2-), 1996 OG Atlanta (M2-), 2000 OG Sydney (M4-) -
Stamp DJI 2011 OG London 2012 - M2X Hunter & Purchase (GBR), gold medal winners OG Beijing 2008
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Stamp DJI 2021 (unauthorized issue) "Olympic Sports" #Coll. RS#
Painting "Olympic Sports 03" by Miki de Goodaboom (FRA)
depicting OG London 2012 W2- gold medal winners Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR)
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Stamp DMA 1990 Nov. 6th - SS OG Barcelona 1992 - A. Holmes & S. Redgrave (GBR) at Henley Regatta
MI SS 173 - stamp 1353
SC 1270
SG MS 1382
YV BF 170
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Stamp GAM 1992 Aug. 10th - Lin Clark & Beryl Crockford (GBR), LW2X gold medal winners WRC Hazewinkel 1985
MI 1387
SC 1266
YV 1205
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Stamp GAM 2008 Sept. 15th (personalized) - OG London 1908 - M8+ final - GBR (Leander Club) beats BEL (Royal Club Nautique de Gand) by two lengths
Gold medal: GBR (Leander Club) Albert Gladstone, Frederick Kelly, Banner Johnstone,
Guy Nickalls, Charles Burnell, Ronald Sanderson, Raymond Etherington-Smith, Henry
Bucknall, cox Gilchrist MacLagan
Silver medal: BEL (Royal Club Nautique de Gand) Oscar Taelmann, Marcel Morimont,
Rémy Orban, Georges Mijs, Francois Vergucht, Polydore Veirman, Oscar de Somville,
Rudolphe Poma, cox Alfred Vanlandeghem
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Stamp GBR 2005 Oct. 4th with °British Gold Medal Winners Beijing 2008° - LM2X + M4- on tab
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Stamp GBR 2009 Mi 2455 II (issued 2006 Oct. 17th) with victorious Cambridge crew 2004 on tab - detail from MS Cambridge University 800th anniversary
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 2nd - OG London - W2- gold medal winners Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR)
MI 3294
SC 3047
SG 3342
YV 3687
The first British women ever to win rowing gold
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 4th - OG London - W2X gold medal for Katherine Grainger & Anna Watkins (GBR)
MI 3299
SC 3052
SG 3347
YV 3694
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