Griffith Sports College Director, Duncan Free OAM, has been inducted into the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame.
The Australian rowing legend joins a legion of sporting greats emanating from the Gold Coast who have received the prestigious award including Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, Nathan Sharpe, Robbie McEwen and Trevor Hendy.
“It is a great honour to be recognised alongside such notable and great names in sport,” Duncan Free said.
“To be mentioned in the same conversation as someone like Grant Davies is something I value personally. His sportsmanship at the Seoul Olympics is memorable and a lesson to us all.”
Grant Davies displayed grace and integrity in 1988 after he discovered the gold medal he thought he had won was not to be and he would have to settle for silver.
He was inducted into the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame in 1999, the same year the Hall of Fame accolade was opened to
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