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Harold Backer (born 20 November 1962) is a Canadian former Olympic rower and financial advisor.
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Harold Backer (born 20 November 1962) is a Canadian former Olympic rower and financial advisor.
He participated in three Olympic Games for the Canadian rowing team at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 in Barcelona.
After retirement as an Olympic athlete, he became a rowing coach.
Backer established financial advisory firm Financial Backer Corp. In 2015 he disappeared after allegedly setting up a pyramid scheme that ran into trouble. His disappearance caused a B.C. wide search at the time, and was covered in an episode of The Fifth Estate.
In April 2017 he turned himself in to the police.
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