New Zealand’s Olympic rowing medallists
The Olympic rowing tradition begun by Darcy Hadfield in 1920 has since flourished. By the end of the 2021 Tokyo Games New Zealand rowers had won 29 medals (14 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze).
1920 (Antwerp) | Darcy Hadfield | bronze | single sculls |
1932 (Los Angeles) | Bob Stiles, Rangi Thompson | silver | coxless pair |
1968 (Mexico City) | Ross Collinge, Warren Cole, Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Simon Dickie (cox) | gold | coxed four |
1972 (Munich) | Trevor Coker, Athol Earl, John Hunter, Tony Hurt, Dick Joyce, Gary Robertson, Wybo Veldman, Lindsay Wilson, Simon Dickie (cox) | gold | eight |
Ross Collinge, Noel Mills, Dudley Storey, Dick Tonks | silver | coxless four | |
1976 (Montreal) | Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Athol Earl, Tony Hurt, Alex McLean, Dave Rodger, Ivan Sutherland, Lindsay Wilson, Simon Dickie (cox) | bronze | eight |
1984 (Los Angeles) | Shane O'Brien, Les O'Connell, Conrad Robertson, Keith Trask | gold | coxless four |
Kevin Lawton, Barrie Mabbott, Don Symon, Ross Tong, Brett Hollister (cox) | bronze | coxed four | |
1988 (Seoul) | Eric Verdonk | bronze | single sculls |
Lynley Hannen, Nikki Payne | bronze | women’s pair | |
Greg Johnston, George Keys, Chris White, Ian Wright, Andrew Bird (cox) | bronze | coxed four | |
2000 (Sydney) | Rob Waddell | gold | single sculls |
2004 (Athens) | Caroline Evers-Swindell, Georgina Evers-Swindell | gold | women’s double sculls |
2008 (Beijing) | Caroline Evers-Swindell, Georgina Evers-Swindell | gold | women’s double sculls |
Mahé Drysdale | bronze | single sculls | |
George Bridgewater, Nathan Twaddle | bronze | coxless pair | |
2012 (London) | Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan | gold | double sculls |
Hamish Bond, Eric Murray | gold | coxless pair | |
Mahé Drysdale | gold | single sculls | |
Juliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown | bronze | women’s pair | |
Peter Taylor, Storm Uru | bronze | lightweight double sculls | |
2016 (Rio de Janeiro) | Mahé Drysdale | gold | single sculls |
Hamish Bond, Eric Murray | gold | coxless pair | |
Genevieve Behrent, Rebecca Scown | silver | women’s pair | |
2021 (Tokyo) | Hamish Bond, Michael Brake, Shaun Kirkham, Matt Macdonald, Tom Mackintosh, Tom Murray, Dan Williamson, Philip Willson, Sam Bosworth (cox) | gold | men's eight |
Emma Twigg | gold | women's single sculls | |
Kerri Gowler, Grace Prendergast | gold | women's coxless pair | |
Brooke Donoghue, Hannah Osborne | silver | women’s double sculls | |
Kelsey Bevan, Emma Dyke, Jackie Gowler, Kerry Gowler, Ella Greenslade, Grace Prendergast, Beth Ross, Lucy Spoors, Caleb Shepherd (cox) | silver | women's eight |
Film of the 1968 rowing eight’s campaign (NZ On Screen)