Adam Clift
David Adam Clift (born 3 January 1962) is a male retired British rower. Rowing career Clift competed for Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. finishing 5th in the 1984 GB Eight and 4th in the 1988 GB coxed Four .He represented England and won a gold medal in the coxed four, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships he won the Silver Medal in the Coxless pairs event with Martin Cross and coached by Mike Spracklen . The British pair losing in a photo finish to the Pimenov brothers from the Soviet Union by 3/100th of a second. Clift and Cross produced a characteristic and late burst of speed in the last 500m that all but overhauled the Soviet crew on the finish line In 1986 Clift and Cross won the Pairs Gold medal at the Lucerne Regatta but after illness eventually placed 4th in a tight field at the ‘86 World Champs in Nottingham . Clift represented Great Britain at the 1978 ,’79 and ‘80 World Junior Rowing Champs .He started in Rowing as a member of Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club in Lancashire and was coached