Richard Walpole

1927 -

	Discipline: Cross-Country Skiing Olympic participations: Squaw Valley 1960 Medal awarded in: 2020 Richard Walpole was the sole representative selected in the Australian Cross-Country Skiing team for the 1960 Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley, USA. It was only the second time that Australia was represented in Cross-Country Skiing at the Olympics, after Bruce Haslingden and Cedric Sloane appearance at Oslo 1952. In a competition dominated by Scandinavian skiers, he placed 51st in the 15km event raced at the McKinney Creek Stadium, in Tahoma.
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