About Paul Farrant
Lived 1935 – 1960 (aged 24–25). Paul Farrant was a canoeist.
Paul Farrant (1935 – 17 April 1960) was a British slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1950s. He won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
Farrant worked as a carpenter. Between 1957 and 1960, he was chairman of the Chalfont Park Canoe Club, of which he was a founder member.
Farrant died at Westminster Hospital on 17 April 1960, a day after he was injured in a road accident.
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British canoeist
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Paul Farrant was born in 1935 in Uxbridge.
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Paul Farrant died on 17 April 1960.
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Paul Farrant was a canoeist.
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