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Full name | Adrian Charles Ellison | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Solihull, West Midlands, England | 11 September 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Tyrian Boat Club Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, Molesey Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adrian Charles Ellison (born 11 September 1958) and is a British retired rowing cox.
Ellison won the coxed pairs title with Tom Cadoux-Hudson and Richard Budgett and the coxed fours title with Cadoux-Hudson, Steve King, Geraint Fuller and Budgett, rowing for Tyrian and London University composites, at the 1982 National Rowing Championships.[1]
Ellison coxed the men's four which brought Steve Redgrave his first Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles in 1984. He also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[2] He also won gold for England, again in the men's coxed fours, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[3][4] Ellison won World Championships bronze medals for Great Britain in 1981 (Men's coxed pair) and 1989 (Men's eight)
He attended Reading University and studied zoology. He is a diagnostic radiographer, specialising in nuclear medicine.