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Tony Fox (rower)

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and came fourth overall. Later in 1952 he won the Wingfield Sculls again. In 1953 he regained the Diamond Challenge Sculls and retained the Wingfield Sculls for the third year. In 1954, Fox and his partner
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and joined the family general practice on Guernsey with his father, brother and uncle. He retired to Cornwall in 1989. He died four days after his eighty-second birthday.
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astonished the rowing world by beating the Russian silver medallists in the Double Sculls at Henley. Marsden had beaten Fox in the first
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in the Diamond Challenge Sculls. He competed in the Summer Olympics at Melbourne but only made it to the second heat.
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and the London Cup in the same year to achieve the rowing triple crown. He then joined
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earlier that year. The pair went on to win the European Championships at Amsterdam.
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Fox married Paula Sweby, a nurse at St George's, in 1958 and had four daughters.
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and 1952 he came second in the Diamond Challenge Sculls to
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Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003
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Guernsey
Pembroke College, Cm
London Rowing Club
rowing
Great Britain
European Rowing Championships
1951 Mâcon
rower
Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics
at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Diamond Challenge Sculls
Wingfield Sculls
Guernsey
Sherborne School
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Diamond Challenge Sculls
Henley Royal Regatta
Wingfield Sculls
London Rowing Club
Mervyn Wood
Helsinki
single sculls
John Marsden
tideway
Scullers Head
Teodor Kocerka
St George's Hospital


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