Return to rowing in Ballarat ignites an old curiosity about a friend from '56 Olympics

By Alex Hamer
October 12 2014 - 9:38pm
SEARCH: 1956 Australian Olympian John Jenkinson with the girl he is looking for, and her mother, on the right.
SEARCH: 1956 Australian Olympian John Jenkinson with the girl he is looking for, and her mother, on the right.

AS THE youngest member of the 1956 Australian rowing team, John Jenkinson was lacking in mates his own age, so he spent his little free time with a local girl. 

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