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Tom Christie (rower)

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Tom Christie
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1954 Vancouver Coxless pairs

Thomas Hildred Christie (26 March 1927 – 11 October 2017)[1] was a doctor and rower who represented Great Britain rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics and twice won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.

Biography

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Christie trained as a doctor at King's College, and was a member of Thames Rowing Club. In the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he was a member of the coxless fours crew.[2] In 1949 he won the Silver Goblets at Henley, partnering Tony Butcher.[3] He also won the Wyfold in 1946 for King's College London, and the Grand and the Stewards in 1948 for Thames Rowing Club.

Christie qualified as a doctor in 1950 and spent time at Westminster Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital training in anaesthetics.[4] He won Silver Goblets at Henley again in 1952 representing Westminster Hospital and partnering H C I Baywater. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won silver medal in the coxless pairs partnering Nicholas Clack. Christie was a consultant in Brighton and was involved with obstetric anaesthesia and open-heart surgery in its early days.

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