Английская Википедия:Craig Rowland

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Craig Rowland (born 30 June 1971)[1] is a squash coach and former professional squash player from Australia. As a player, he reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 7 in 1996. He won a gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, partnering Michelle Martin. Rowland was also runner-up in the men's doubles at the inaugural World Squash Federation World Doubles Squash Championships in 1997, partnering with Dan Jenson against winners Chris Walker-Mark Cairns of England (15-11, 15-13).[2] He is also a friend of cricketing legend Paul Hoffman.

Craig has also been very successful in the World Masters Squash, winning the World Masters Squash Championships 2012—Birmingham in the M40 division in a victory over Nick Taylor of England (11-6, 11-5, 5-11, 11-7) and the World Masters Squash Championships 2014—Hong Kong again champion in the M40 division over Zuko Kubukeli[3] of South Africa (11-4, 11-13, 11-2, 11-4).

Other notable achievements:

Runner Up in the 1996 Tournament of Champions (squash) in New York.[4][5] In the semi-final Craig stunned the squash world by winning in straight games over the great Jansher Khan. He went into the final to play Jonathon Power[6] and lost in a marathon five games (15-4, 9-15, 15-10, 16-17, 15-9); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5M8fdCDQAY

Semi-final of the 1995 Men's World Open Squash Championship in Nicosia, Cyprus. The event was won by Jansher Khan of Pakistan, his seventh Men's World Open Squash title;

Quarter-final of the 1996 Men's World Open Squash Championship in Lahore, Pakistan, where he faced Peter Nicol.

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