Richard Budgett
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Rowing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1984 Los Angeles | coxed fours | |
Dr Richard Gordon McBride Budgett OBE (born Glasgow, March 20, 1959) is a British Olympic rower and chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London.
Budgett was part of the British coxed fours that won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
He next attended the Winter Olympics in 1992 and 1994 as the doctor for the British Bobsleigh Team. He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter games, and led the Team GB HQ medical team at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He is Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute. [1]
He was appointed as CMO to the 2012 games in February 2007.
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- [2] BBC News
- olympics.org.uk
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