Graham Beech

Walter Graham Beech (6 August 1924 – 10 May 1993) was an English rower who won the Wingfield Sculls, the amateur championship of the Thames in 1957.

Beech started rowing with Birmingham Rowing Club in 1954.^[1] Partnering Ken Tinegate he was runner up in the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1954.^[2] He joined London Rowing Club in 1957. Although he lost to Teodor Kocerka in the semi-final of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, later in 1957 he won the Wingfield Sculls beating Sidney Rand by half a length.^[3]

Beech – "one of London Rowing Club's more colourful members" – died of a heart attack in 1993 in Lincoln.^[4][5]