Graham Beech
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Walter Graham Beech (6 August 1924 – 10 May 1993) was an English rower who won the Wingfield Sculls, the amateur championship of the Thames in 1957.
Beech started rowing with Birmingham Rowing Club in 1954.[1] Partnering Ken Tinegate he was runner up in the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1954.[2] He joined London Rowing Club in 1957. Although he lost to Teodor Kocerka in the semi-final of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, later in 1957 he won the Wingfield Sculls beating Sidney Rand by half a length.[3]
Beech – "one of London Rowing Club's more colourful members" – died of a heart attack in 1993 in Lincoln.[4][5]
References
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- ↑ Birmingham Rowing Club history Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Wingfield Sculls Record of Races
- ↑ British Rowing Almanack 1994
- ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
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