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Paul Costello (1894-1986) won three

gold medals at three Olympic Games:

M2X gold medal at OG Antwerp 1920

M2X gold medal at OG Paris 1924

M2X gold medal at OG Amsterdam 1928

Pertti Karppinen won three gold

medal at three Olympic Games:

M1X gold medal at OG Montreal 1976

M1X gold medal at OG Moscow 1980

M1X gold medal at OG Atlanta 1984

Steve Redgrave won five Olympic gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games:

Los Angeles 1984 (M4+), Seoul 1988 (M2-), Barcelona 1992 (M2-), Atlanta 1996 (M2-) and Sydney 2000 (M4-).

He also won nine gold medals at World Rowing Championships: WRC Nottingham 1986 (M2+), WRC Copenhagen

1987 (M2-), WRC Vienna 1991 (M2-), WRC Radice 1993 (M2-), WRC Indianapolis 1994 (M2-), WRC Tampere

1995 (M2-), WRC Aiguebelette 1997 (M4-), WRC Cologne 1998 (M4-) and WRC St. Catharines 1999 (M4-).

He competed at Henley Royal Regatta for more than two decades winning 17 times in five different events,

among them the Diamond Sculls.

V. Ivanov won three gold medals

at Olympic Games:

M1X at OG Melbourne 1956

M1X at OG Rome 1960

M1X at OG Tokyo 1964

He was the M1X World Champion

at WRC Lucerne 1962 and M1X

European Champion at ERC Bled

1956, ERC Macon 1959, ERC Prague

1961 and ERC Amsterdam 1964.

Furthermore he won the Diamond

Sculls at Henley 1957 and 1958.

Stamp BDI 2022 (unauthorized issue) - OG Paris 2024 (M2- CRO)