Paul Farrant (1935 – 17 April 1960) was a British slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1950s. He won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
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Born | 1935[1] birth registered in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England[2] | ||||||||||||||
Died | 17 April 1960 Westminster Hospital, Westminster, London, England | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Kayaking | ||||||||||||||
Event | Folding kayak | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Farrant worked as a carpenter. Between 1957 and 1960, he was chairman of the Chalfont Park Canoe Club, of which he was a founder member.
Farrant died at Westminster Hospital on 17 April 1960, a day after he was injured in a road accident.[3]
References
edit- ^ "PAUL, 17, GAINS A PLACE IN BRITAIN'S CANOE TEAM". Middlesex Advertiser and County Gazette. 25 July 1952. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "Birth registration". FreeBMD.
- ^ "CHALFONT CANOEIST KILLED IN EASTER ROAD ACCIDENT". Bucks Examiner. 22 April 1960. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
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