Henry Robert "Bobby" Pearce (September 30, 1905 - May 20, 1976) was an Australian-Canadian sculler of the 1920s and 1930s who won the gold medal in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was also a winner of the Diamond Sculls. Pearce was born in Sydney, Australia into a family with sporting pedigree, with his great-grandfather having emigrated from England in 1850 and settling in Double Bay, … Wikipedia
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