Tony Marchant (athlete)
Tony Marchant may refer to: *Tony Marchant (cyclist) (born 1937), former Australian Olympic track cyclist *Tony Marchant (playwright) (born 1959), British playwright and television dramatist *Tony Marchant (rugby league) Tony Marchant (born ) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Great Britain national rugby league team, Great Britain and Yorkshire rugby league team, Yo ...

Tony Marchant (cyclist)
Anthony John Marchant , also known as "Tippy" Marchant (born 28 August 1937) is a former Australian track cyclist who along with Ian Browne won the 2000 m tandem event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Marchant had little formal training and only took up the sport at the age of 16 because his friends liked the sport. In 1955, Marchant shot to prominence after only two years in the sport, winning the 500 m time trial and the 5 mile event at the Junior Australian Championships. This resulted him being approached by Browne to team up in early 1956 and they promptly won the tandem event at the national championships to earn national selection. The pair were eliminated after losing their first two races but were given a reprieve when the Soviet Union pair were hospitalised in a crash and forced to withdraw. Thereafter Marchant and Browne were unbeaten and progressed to an unlikely Olympic gold. In 1957, Marchant retired to play Australian rules football, again ...
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Tony Marchant (playwright)
Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for ''The Lucky Ones'' and ''Raspberry''. In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television. His television work includes the acclaimed ''Holding On (TV series), Holding On'' (1997), ''Never, Never'', starring John Simm and ''Take Me Home (TV series), Take Me Home''. Early life Marchant, whose father was a printer and mother a school dinner lady, was born and raised on a council estate in Wapping in the East End of London, which he has described as, "a very hard, heavy place to live sometimes." He has stated that while estates have changed since he grew up on one, the poverty is still the same and it hasn't gone away. He was educated at St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath and went on to become a London boxing champion and a member of the England boxing squad. Inspired by, ...
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