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Australian squash player (b.1945)
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9 April 1945(Sydney)
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Biography
Cam Nancarrow, born 9 April 1945 in Sydney, is a former squash player from Australia, who was one of the game's leading players in the 1960s and 1970s. He won the World Amateur Individual Championship in 1967, having finished runner-up in that competition in 1967 and 1971. He was also runner-up at the British Open in 1969 and 1977. In March 2008, he was added to the Squash Australia Hall of Fame.
He is the step-father of 1980s and 1990s squash top player Tristan Nancarrow.
The name Nancarrow is of Cornish origin meaning "valley of the deer".