Durward Knowles
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| Full name | Durward Randolph Knowles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Bahamas |
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| Born | 2 November 1917 Nassau, Bahamas |
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| Class(es) | Star | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Durward Randolph Knowles (born 2 November 1917) is a sailor and olympic champion from the Bahamas. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal in the Star class, together with Cecil Cooke.[1][2] He received a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[3] He had previously competed for the United Kingdom in the 1948 Olympics finishing in 4th place in the Star class together with Sloane Elmo Farrington.
Knowles was knighted in 1996.[4] In 1997, he was awarded The Bahamas' Order of Merit.[5] In 2014, the second Legend-class patrol boat of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force was commissioned as HMBS Durward Knowles.
He is the stepbrother of Percy Knowles.
References
- ↑ "Olympic Games Medallists – Sailing" gbrathletics (Retrieved on 1 June 2008)
- ↑ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Sailing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 1 June 2008)
- ↑ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Sailing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 1 June 2008)
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 54537. p. 12875. 27 September 1996.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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