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Richard Gabriel (rower)

English rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ66012973 ↗
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Richard Clair Gabriel (30 August 1927 – 10 October 2006) was an English rower.

Biography

Gabriel represented the England team and won a gold medal in the coxed four event (as the coxswain) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.

Gabriel was a member of the University College London Boat Club.

Gabriel died on 10 October 2006, at the age of 79.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Gabriel (rower)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.