Nigel Read

{{short description|British rower}}

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{{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}

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{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1977 Amsterdam | Lwt eight}}

{{MedalGold | 1978 Copenhagen | Lwt eight}}

{{MedalGold | 1980 Hazewinkel | Lwt eight}}

{{MedalSilver | 1976 Villach | Lwt eight}}

{{MedalBronze | 1975 Nottingham | Lwt eight}}

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Nigel Read is a retired lightweight rower who competed for Great Britain.

Rowing career

Read was part of the lightweight eight that secured a bronze medal at the 1975 World Rowing Championships.{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS118324513/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=92051b4c |last=Railton |first=Jim |title=Rowing |work=The Times |date=1 September 1975 |page=7|via=Times Digital Archives}} The following year he was part of the lightweight eight that secured a silver medal at the 1976 World Rowing Championships in Villach, Austria.{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS101678860/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=b29b2474 |last=Railton |first=Jim |title=Shock therapy for lightweight eight |work=The Times |date=12 August 1976 |page=6|via=Times Digital Archives}} He won a gold medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam with the lightweight men's eight.{{cite web |title= Nigel Read |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/37231/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=6 December 2017}}{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS185041181/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=5b12a1c6 |last=Railton |first=Jim |title=Rowing |work=The Times |date=29 August 1977 |page=11|via=Times Digital Archives}} The following year he was part of the lightweight eight that successfully defended their title and won the gold medal at the 1978 FISA Lightweight Championships in Copenhagen.{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS101024519/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=f8ebeca7 |last=Railton |first=Jim |title=Rowing |work=The Times |date=7 August 1978 |page=6|via=Times Digital Archives}} He regained the title and gold medal at the World Championships in Hazewinkel, August 1980

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{{World champions – Lightweight men's eight}}

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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:British male rowers

Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain

Category:Living people

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