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| Birth name | Robert Daniel Nightingale | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1954-05-21) 21 May 1954 (age 70) Redruth, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Robert Daniel "Danny" Nightingale (born 21 May 1954) is a British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.
He won a team gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, with Adrian Parker and Jim Fox.
Nightingale was the British pentathlon champion in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He later became the Development Officer for the Modern Pentathlon Association.
Nightingale used to work as a PE teacher at Rye Hills secondary school.
References
- "Danny Nightingale Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- 1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Modern Pentathlon Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 November 2008)
- "Olympedia – Danny Nightingale". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161203172357/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/danny-nightingale-1.html. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20161203172357/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/danny-nightingale-1.html. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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