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British motorboat racer

Olympic medal record
Men's Water motorsports
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class B
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class C

John Charles Field-Richards (10 May 1878 – 18 April 1959) was a British Army officer and motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Field-Richards studied at Keble College, Oxford. He joined the Hampshire Regiment as Second lieutenant on 19 May 1900, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 10 January 1902.

As a crew member of the Gyrinus he won two gold medals in the only motorboat competition at the Olympics.

External links

  1. "John Field-Richards". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. "Oxonian Olympians". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. "No. 27427". The London Gazette. 22 April 1902. p. 2691.

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