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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 January 1973 (1973-01-03) (age 51) Lae, Papua New Guinea | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
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Richard Rowles (born 3 January 1973) is a former light middleweight boxer, who represented Australia at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Born in Lae, in Papua New Guinea, Rowles later on moved to Brisbane, where he was based at Brisbane's Lang Park Amateur Boxing Club, alongside Lang Park.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
References
- "AIS at the Olympics". ausport.gov.au. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
External links
- Richard Rowles at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Richard Rowles at Olympics.com
- Richard Rowles at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Richard Rowles at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- Olympic boxers for Australia
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Boxers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
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