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Born | Croydon, London, England | 2 March 1951||||||||||||||
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Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Adrian Parker (born 2 March 1951) is a British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.[1]
He won a team gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, with Danny Nightingale and Jim Fox.[2] He finished 5th in individual modern pentathlon at the 1976 Olympics. Parker won the final event, the cross-country, with an "outstanding run", which helped Britain to win the gold medal.[1] Parker had been the British pentathlon champion in 1975.[1]