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Full name | David Howard Travis | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Twickenham, London, UK | 9 September 1945|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Howard Travis (born 9 September 1945) was a British javelin thrower. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 summer Olympics in the javelin and won a gold medal in the 1967 World Student Games and the 1970 Commonwealth Games. He was an international athlete from 1965 to 1978 and the British record holder for 4 years.