Birth Date: | 1935[1] |
Birth Place: | birth registered in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England[2] |
Death Date: | 17 April 1960 |
Death Place: | Westminster Hospital, Westminster, London, England |
Sport: | Kayaking |
Event: | Folding kayak |
Headercolor: | lightsteelblue |
Paul Farrant (1935 – 17 April 1960) was a British slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1950s. He won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
Farrant worked as a carpenter. Between 1957 and 1960, he was chairman of the Chalfont Park Canoe Club, of which he was a founder member.
Farrant died at Westminster Hospital on 17 April 1960, a day after he was injured in a road accident.[3]