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forty-niners
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forty-niners
participants in California gold rush of 1849. [Am. Hist.: LLEI, I: 270]
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It specialises in designing and producing small, hand made high performance dinghies, including the Olympic 49er class, which won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Athens Olympics in 2004, as well as the 29er, Flying 15, Musto Skiff and B14 dinghy.
Draper, who won bronze in Athens 2004 with Simon Hiscocks in the 49er class, is to start training fulltime with his new crew Peter Greenhalgh next week once the pair finish the iShares Cup tomorrow.
The 23-year-old and Hiscocks have endured a solid season to date finishing 11th at the 49er World Championships in Italy and 14th at the European Championships in Croatia.
 
 
 
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