Cam Nancarrow

World Teams Champion 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973
Australian Amateur Champion 1972
British Amateur Champion 1972
New Zealand Open 1972
World Amateur Champion South Africa 1973
Canadian Open 1973
Highest world ranking: 2

Cam Nancarrow came to the sport that made him world champion almost by accident. In 1961 a squash centre was built near where he was living in the southern Sydney suburb of Rockdale. Cam’s father won a raffle held to celebrate the courts’ opening, taking home a racket, some balls and a pair of shoes. But after playing the game a few times, Cam’s father decided it was too much like hard work and so gave the gear to his son, then a golf loving 16-year-old. Nancarrow gave it a shot and soon discovered he had a flair for the game, quickly developing into a top-class junior, winning his first event when he took out the Combined High School championship in Sydney. Success followed as Cam won several junior tournaments and made his way up the extremely powerful New South Wales ranks.

In 1982, Cam Nancarrow moved to Queensland, where he established a furniture restoration business. He does not play squash anymore; in fact he has come full circle and if he is not at home, odds are that you will find him on a golf course.