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Grant Davies

Grant Davies

Australian sprint canoeist

For the footballer, see Grant Davies (footballer).

Grant Davies (born 11 September 1963) is an Australian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-1 1000 m event.[1] He was initially told that he had won the gold medal, but 11 minutes after the race the officials declared that Greg Barton had won the race by 0.005 seconds, the narrowest margin in Olympic history.[2]

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In 2009 Davies was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Olympic results Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    "GC Sport Hall of Fame". Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Mr Grant Davies". Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. qsport.org.au. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2014.


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