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Medal record Men's Rowing Olympic Games Competitor for 
Great BritainGold 1948 London double sculls British Empire Games Competitor for 
EnglandBronze 1950 Auckland eights Richard "Dickie" Desborough Burnell (July 26, 1917 – January 29, 1995) was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Henley-on-Thames and died in Wallingford. He was the son of Charles Burnell and the son-in-law of Stanley Garton.
In 1948 he won the gold medal with his partner Bert Bushnell in the double sculls event.
He and his father Charles Burnell are the only father and son in Olympic history to have won gold medals in rowing.
At the 1950 Empire Games he won the bronze medal as part of the English boat in the eights competition.
Bibliography
R.D. Burnell was also the author of several books on rowing, among them:
- Swing Together: Thoughts on Rowing (1952)
- The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race, 1829-1953 (1954)
- Sculling: With Notes on Training and Rigging (1955)
- Henley Regatta: A History (1957)
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Categories:- 1917 births
- 1995 deaths
- English rowers
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Rowers at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta
- People from Henley-on-Thames
- People from Wallingford, Oxfordshire
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- British rowing biography stubs
- British Olympic medalist stubs
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