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He won an Olympic rowing gold medal in coxed four at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute. He was part of the British coxed fours that won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter games, and led the Team GB HQ medical team at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games. He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter games, and led the Team Great Britain Headquarters medical team at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Richard Budgett Biography
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Dr. He was chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games held in London.
Budgett was born in 1959 in Glasgow. He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic Games, and led the Team GB HQ medical team at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games and was appointed as CMO to the 2012 London Olympic Games in February 2007.
Richard Budgett
Dr Richard Gordon McBride Budgett OBE (born 20 March 1959) is a British Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee. He is currently part of The Prohibited List Expert Group of WADA (World Anti-doping Agency).
He is married and has three children.
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Doctor Richard Gordon McBride Budgett Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is the Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee and was a British Olympic rower and chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games held in London.
He was appointed as CMO to the 2012 Games in February 2007.
He was appointed Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee in April 2012, to commence in the following October. He studied medicine at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Hermes Club, and the Middlesex HospitalUniversity of London and read his MSc in Sports Medicine at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Budgett was part of the British coxed four that won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, alongside Steve Redgrave, Martin Cross, Andy Holmes, and Adrian Ellison (cox).
He next attended the Winter Olympics in 1992 and 1994 as the doctor for the British bob-sleigh team. He was elected to the council of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2007 and was appointed Chairman of BASEM in 2008. Richard G. Budgett OBE, MA MBBS MRCGP Dip Sports Med. FFSEM FISM
Olympic Gold Medalist in Coxed Fours at the 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles.
Appointed Medical Officer to the British Olympic Medical Centre in 1989.
Appointed Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Association, Chairman of the BOA Medical Committee in 1994.
Governing Body Medical Officer to the Olympic Bobsleigh Team and Chairman of the Amateur Rowing Association Medical Committee.
English Institute Sports Physician South East Region 2003.
Chief Medical Officer for the Great Britain Team at the Atlanta, Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, and the Nagano and Salt Lake and Turin Winter Olympic Games.
Education
He studied medicine at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Hermes Club, and the Middlesex Hospital University of London and read his Master of Science in Sports Medicine at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Career
He next attended the Winter Olympics in 1992 and 1994 as the doctor for the British Bobsleigh Team.
He was Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute until he was appointed Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee in 2012.
In 2005 he was appointed to the World Anti-Doping Agency list committee and later chaired that committee. He was Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute.
He was appointed as CMO to the 2012 games in February 2007.
He was appointed Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee in April 2012, to commence in the following October.
Achievements
Doctor Budgett was part of the British coxed four that won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, alongside Steven Redgrave, Martin Cross, Andy Holmes, and Adrian Ellison.
Dr Richard Budgett
Dr Richard Budgett was Medical and Scientific Director of the IOC from 2012 to 2024.
He was also Chairman of the Amateur Rowing Association Medical Committee. Since 1987 he has conducted research into the problem of Fatigue and Underperformance and has published widely on the subject of Overtraining, which is now called Unexplained Underperformance Syndrome (UUPS).