Tony Butcher
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's rowing | ||
| British Empire Games | ||
Representing  England
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1950 Auckland | eights |
Anthony Sidney Fairbank Butcher (1 June 1926 – 20 August 2009) was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games and won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Butcher was educated at Cambridge University and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1947. He became a member of Thames Rowing Club. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the coxless fours.[1] Butcher recalled that at these post-war austerity Olympics, his kit was made by his mother from terry towelling.[2] In 1949 he won the Silver Goblets at Henley, partnering Tom Christie.[3] At the 1950 British Empire Games he was a member of the English eight which won bronze medal.
Personal life
[edit]Tony Butcher was married to wife Peggy and had four children, John, Adrian, David and Marilyn. He lived for most of his life in Beaconsfield.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1926 births
- 2009 deaths
- Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
- English male rowers
- Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Rowers at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen