Bobby Pearce (rower)
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For other people named Bobby Pearce, see Bobby Pearce (disambiguation).
Henry Robert Pearce (30 September 1905 – 20 May 1976) was an Australian three-time world champion sculler of the 1920s and 1930s. He won consecutive Olympic gold medals in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won the World Sculling Championship in 1933, and twice successfully defended that title in 1934 and 1938. He was a three-time Australian national champion and won the Diamond Sculls at the 1931 Henley Royal Regatta.
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Birth name | Henry Robert Pearce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1905-09-30)30 September 1905 Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 May 1976(1976-05-20) (aged 70) Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Sydney Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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