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Richard Strachan (athlete)

  • 2000:  Czech Republic (Mužík, Poděbradský, Tesařík, Bláha)
  • 2002:  Poland (Plawgo, Rysiukiewicz, Gąsiewski, Maćkowiak)
  • 2005:  France (Maunier, Wallard, Panel, Raquil)
  • 2007:  Great Britain (Garland, Tobin, Taylor, Green)
  • 2009:  Italy (Marin, Galvan, Rao, Licciardello)
  • 2011:  France (Macedot, Djhone, Hanne, Décimus)
  • 2013:  Great Britain (Levine, Bingham, Strachan, Buck)
  • 2015:  Belgium (Watrin, D. Borlée, J. Borlée, K. Borlée)
  • 2017:  Poland (Kozłowski, Krawczuk, Waściński, Omelko)
  • 2019:  Belgium (Watrin, J. Borlée, D. Borlée, K. Borlée)
  • 2021:  Netherlands (Dobber, Bonevacia, Angela, van Diepen)
  • 2023:  Belgium (Watrin, Doom, D. Borlée, K. Borlée)
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Sir Richard John Strachan

1760-1828. He was born in Devon on 27 October 1760, the eldest son of Lieutenant Patrick Strachan, and of his wife Caroline Pitman. He was the grandson of Captain John Pitman, and the nephew of Captain Sir John Strachan, 5th baronet, who died in 1777.

In 1772 Strachan entered the navy aboard the Intrepid 64, Captain James Cranston, going out to the East Indies and also seeing service with his uncle, Captain Sir John Strachan, on that station aboard the Orford 68. He was later employed in North America with Commodore William Hotham aboard the Preston 50, Captain Samuel Uppleby, and Vice-Admiral Lord Howe on the Eagle 64, Captain Henry Duncan, and upon his uncle’s death on 28 December 1777 he succeeded to his baronetcy of Thornton, County Kincardine in Aberdeenshire. From the spring of 1779 he voyaged to Africa and then Jamaica aboard the Actaeon 44, Captain Robert Keeler, and he was commissioned lieutenant in the West Indies on 5 April.

Two years later, having returned home, Strachan joined the Hero 74, Captain James Hawker, in which he fought a

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Sir Richard John Strachan (6th Baronet of Thornton, Kincardine)

The surname of Strachan, which in the successive changes of orthography appears Strathechyn, Strathaquin, Straquhen, and otherwise, is local, there being a parish so called in the north of Scotland. Nisbet affirms, that the district was anciently erected into a county palatine, as he finds a Walterus, Comes Palatinus de Strachan, and considers it the only instance known in the kingdom. The family is traced by authentic documents from a period of high antiquity.

The subject of this memoir is the eldest son of Lieutenant Patrick Strachan, R.N., by the daughter of Captain Pitman of the same service, and nephew of Captain Sir John Strachan, the fifth Baronet of that name, to whose title he succeeded Dec. 28, 1777. Sir Richard was born in Devonshire, Oct. 27, 1760; and, like his father and uncle, entered early into the naval service. His first promotion was into the Actaeon, one of the old 44’s upon two decks; he then became third Lieutenant of the Hero, 74, one of Commodore Johnstone’s squadron in the affa

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