Cecil Cooke
Bahamian sailor
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Full name | Cecil George Cooke | ||||||||||||||
Born | May 1, 1923 (1923-05) Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas | ||||||||||||||
Died | May 31, 1983 (1983-06-01) (aged 60) Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas | ||||||||||||||
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Cecil George Cooke (May 31, 1923 – May 1, 1983) was 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 Durward Knowles.[1][2][3] He was born in and died in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Olympic Games Medallists – Sailing" gbrathletics (Retrieved on June 1, 2008)
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Sailing". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-21. Retrieved June 1, 2008.
- ^ Sanborn, Margot (22 November 1964). "Nassau's Swinging into the Season". The Miami Herald. p. 133. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
hero's welcome for Captain Durward Knowles and crew member, Cecil Cooke, who won for the Bahamas the 1964 Olympic gold medal in Star Class sailing.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cecil Cooke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
External links
- Cecil George Cooke at World Sailing
- Cecil George Cooke at Olympics.com
- Cecil Cooke at Olympedia
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- 1932:
Gray & Libano (USA)
- 1936:
Bischoff & Weise (GER)
- 1948:
H. Smart & P. Smart (USA)
- 1952:
Straulino & Rode (ITA)
- 1956:
Williams & Low (USA)
- 1960:
Pinegin & Shutkov (URS)
- 1964:
Knowles & Cooke (BAH)
- 1968:
North & Barrett (USA)
- 1972:
Forbes & Anderson (AUS)
- 1980:
Mankin & Muzychenko (URS)
- 1984:
Buchan & Erickson (USA)
- 1988:
McIntyre & Vaile (GBR)
- 1992:
Reynolds & Haenel (USA)
- 1996:
Grael & Ferreira (BRA)
- 2000:
Reynolds & Liljedahl (USA)
- 2004:
Grael & Ferreira (BRA)
- 2008:
Percy & Simpson (GBR)
- 2012:
Lööf & Salminen (SWE)
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