Cecil Cooke
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Full name | Cecil George Cooke | ||||||||||||||
Born | May 1, 1923 Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas | ||||||||||||||
Died | May 31, 1983 Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas | (aged 60)||||||||||||||
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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] He was born in and died in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
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Categories:
- 1923 births
- 1983 deaths
- Bahamian male sailors (sport)
- Olympic sailors for the Bahamas
- Olympic gold medalists for the Bahamas
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Star
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Nassau, Bahamas
- North American Olympic medalist stubs
- North American yacht racing biography stubs
- Bahamian sportspeople stubs