Grayson Bourne is a
British canoe sprinter who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two medals in the K-2 10000 m event at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (
1990
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) and a silver (K-2 10000 m:
1989
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).
Bourne also competed in five
Summer Olympics
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, earning his best finish of fifth in the
K-4 1000 m event at
Los Angeles in
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
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. He won 67 British National titles. Bourne now owns the most successful Kayak ergometer company KayakPro USA LLC who have been suppliers of ergometers to the last 5 Olympic Games and to NASA.
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Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Great Britain
Year of birth missing (living people)
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
British male canoeists
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