Grant Davies (born 11 September 1963) is an Australian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1980s. At the

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, he won a silver medal in the K-1 1000 m event. He was initially told that he had won the gold medal, but 11 minutes after the race the officials declared that

Greg Barton Gregory Mark Barton (born December 2, 1959 in Jackson, Michigan) is an American sprint kayaker who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (K-1 1000 m, K-2 1000 m: ...

had won the race by 0.005 seconds, the narrowest margin in Olympic history. In 2009 Davies was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.

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