Richard Wang (athlete)
 Richard Wang at the 2010 European Championships in Amsterdam | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||
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Richard Wang is a Hong Kong born athlete who has competed for Great Britain and England in sports shooting and Dragon Boat Racing.
Sports shooting
Wang represented England and won a silver medal in the 50 metres free pistol pairs with Paul Leatherdale, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1][2][3]
Dragon Boat racing
- Team GB: Bronze medallist in the Senior 1000m at the 2009 IDBF Dragon Boat Racing World Championships [4] in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Team GB: Bronze medallist in the Grand Dragons 500m at the 2010 EDBF Dragon Boat Racing European Championships [5] in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Richard is currently still involved in Dragon Boat Racing and trains with the Typhoon Dragon Boat Club.
References
- ↑ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
- ↑ http://www.dragonboat2009.com/download/overall_results.pdf
- ↑ "EDBF Championship Results". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
External links
Categories:
- Living people
- 1947 births
- Hong Kong emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British male sport shooters
- Shooters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in shooting
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople of Hong Kong descent
- English male sport shooters
- Dragon boat racers