Researching Chris Nilsson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 27 people with the Nilsson surname? In that year Nilsson was ranked number 3552 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Chris Nilsson on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Chris Nilsson and the Nilsson Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Chris Nilsson
Chris Nilsson
Christopher William Bunny Nilsson (born 16 February 1947) is a New Zealand rower.
Nilsson was born in 1947 in Hastings, New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 299 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. He later worked as a rowing coach. He worked as a coach for the University of Oxford and then Princeton University. This was followed from 2004 to 2008 as coach in the New Zealand high performance rowing programme. Nilsson claims that he was driven out of the sport by fellow 1972 Summer Olympics rower, highly successful but controversial coach Dick Tonks. When Tonks was appointed head coach, Nilsson resigned and went to the University of Cambridge.
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