New Zealand rowers have competed at the Summer Olympics since the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Men have competed since the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and women have competed since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. 186 individuals have represented New Zealand in Olympic rowing (38 women and 148 men) and they have had 274 appearances (59 by women and 215 by men). Three athletes have won three medals (Simon Dickie, Mahé Drysdale, and Hamish Bond) and of those, Bond is the most successful with three gold medals.

With 29 Olympic medals including 14 gold medals, rowing is the country's most successful Olympic sport, followed by athletics with 26 medals including 10 gold medals.

Participation

Early years without participation

In the early years of the modern Olympic Games, people from New Zealand participated but not on behalf of New Zealand. The country's earliest participant, Victor Lindberg at the 1900 Summer Olympics, was only officially recognised as New Zealand's first competitor in 2014.^[1][2] In 1908 and 1912, a total of six New Zealanders competed as part of a team from Australasia. But none of these early New Zealand competitors were rowers. After the 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, were cancelled due to World War I, New Zealand sent its first rower to the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.^[3]

1920 Summer Olympics

Darcy Hadfield was a dominant single scull rower of his time. He had won the 1919 Henley Peace Regatta "with ease", defeating the 1912 Olympic champion Wally Kinnear. Later in the same month, he won the single sculls at the Inter-Allied Games near Paris. The long journey from New Zealand by boat to Belgium saw him out of shape at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and he came third in the final race, winning bronze.^[4][5] He was New Zealand's only rower at the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[6] Hadfield was defeated in the semifinals of the single sculls by Jack Kelly Sr., the eventual gold medal winner, but took the bronze medal as the fastest losing semifinalist.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Darcy Hadfield	Single sculls	8:05.0	1 Q	7:49.2	2	Did not race

1924 Summer Olympics

The New Zealand Olympic Council decided to send eight rowers to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[8] The biggest challenge at the time was a lack of funds and in the end, the New Zealand Olympic team was made up of only four athletes, none of them rowers.^[9][10] Darcy Hadfield was a dominant single sculler at the time but he had become professional in 1922 and was thus no longer eligible to compete at the Olympics.^[11][12]

1928 Summer Olympics

A New Zealand rowing eight was selected but was unable to travel to the games because of lack of funds.^[13][14] The chosen team consisted of Hubert McLean (Wellington), Crosby Morris (Canterbury),^[15] F. H. Brown (Canterbury), Clarrie Healey (Wanganui),^[16] Mick Brough (Otago), Vic Olsson (Marlborough), L. Brooker (Auckland), Bob Stiles (Canterbury), G. St. Clair (Auckland), and G. Duggan (Canterbury). The reserves were Glen Stiles (Canterbury)^[17] and N. Webber (Auckland).

1932 Summer Olympics

In 1932, seven rowing competitions were held, and New Zealand entered three boats with a total of eleven rowers: a coxless pair, a coxed four, and an eight.^[18] Bob Stiles and Rangi Thompson won New Zealand's second rowing medal, a silver, in the coxless pair.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bob Stiles Rangi Thompson	Coxless pair	7:50.2	2 R	8:11.4	2 Q	8:02.4
Noel Pope Somers Cox Charles Saunders John Solomon Delmont Gullery (cox)	Coxed four	7:19.6	3 R	7:38.2	1 Q	7:32.4	4
George Cooke Bert Sandos Bob Stiles Jack Macdonald Lawrence Jackson Rangi Thompson Charles Saunders John Solomon Delmont Gullery (cox)	Eight	6:38.2	4 R	6:52.2	2	Did not advance

1936 Summer Olympics

In February 1936, the national rowing championships were held in Wellington.^[20] Even before the national championships, it was clear that no eight would be sent due to the cost involved and lack of previous international success.^[21] Following the regatta, it was decided that no rowers were up to sufficient form, and none were nominated for the Summer Olympics in Berlin.^[22]

Interlude

The 1940 and 1944 Summer Olympics were both cancelled due to World War II. While New Zealand sent a team of 17 athletes to the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, no rowers were included.^[3]

1952 Summer Olympics

In 1952, seven rowing competitions were held, and New Zealand entered a single boat: a coxed four. The boat was eliminated in the repechage.^[23]

1956 Summer Olympics

In 1956, New Zealand entered boats in three of the seven events, manned by eight rowers.^[24]

1960 Summer Olympics

In 1960, seven rowing competitions were held, and New Zealand entered a single rower: James Hill competing in single sculls.^[25]

1964 Summer Olympics

In 1964, New Zealand entered boats in three of the seven events:^[26] men's single sculls,^[27] men's coxed four,^[28] and men's eight.^[29]

1968 Summer Olympics

In 1968, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve. Preparations were held in Christchurch at Kerr's Reach on the Avon River. The reserve rowers were unhappy with the "spare parts" tag and felt that they were good enough to perhaps win a medal if put forward as a coxed four. The trainer, Rusty Robertson, commented about them:^[30]

the funniest looking crew you've ever seen

There were stern discussions with the New Zealand selectors. In a training run, the coxed four was leading the eight over the whole race. In the end, the reserve rowers got their way and New Zealand entered boats in two of the seven events:^[30][31] men's coxed four^[32] and men's eight.^[33] In the coxed four, the teams from East and West Germany were among the favourites; the United Team of Germany had won this event at the last Olympics, but that was the last appearance of the German United Team. The teams from the Soviet Union and Italy were also among the medal contenders. The East German team won their heat and semi-final in the fastest overall time, but the New Zealand team unexpectedly controlled the final and defeated the East Germans by over two seconds. This was New Zealand's third rowing medal, and its first gold medal in rowing.^[32] The medals were presented by IOC vice-president Konstantin Adrianow.^[34] The heat, semi-final and final were the only three races that the coxed four ever rowed.^[30]

New Zealand's eight was expected to win, and Wybo Veldman later recalled:^[35]

We were hot favourites but the wheels fell off. We should have won it, finished fourth, got nothing, a terrible experience.

In 1968, New Zealand's first golden era in rowing began. Under trainer Robertson, the era would last until the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[36] Both the 1968 coxed four and Robertson would later be inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.^[37][38]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semi-finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Warren Cole Ross Collinge Dick Joyce Dudley Storey Simon Dickie (cox)	Coxed four	7:12.19	1 QS	Bye		6:48.65	1 FA	6:45.62
Alan Webster Wybo Veldman Alistair Dryden John Hunter Mark Brownlee John Gibbons Tom Just Gil Cawood Robert Page (cox)	Coxed eight	6:05.62	1 FA	Bye		—		6:10.43	4

1972 Summer Olympics

1972 was the last year that only men competed at the Olympic rowing events.^[39] New Zealand entered boats in four of the seven events at the Munich Games, and won medals in two of the competitions.^[40] The members of the gold medal winning 1972 New Zealand eight came from nine different clubs, which said a lot about Robertson's ability as a coach to blend individuals into a strong sum.^[41] The team would win Sportsman of the Year Awards in both 1971 and 1972. The crew of the eight standing on the victory dais overcome with emotion and "bawling like babies" is one of New Zealand's most memorable sporting moments.^[35][42] The medal ceremony for the eights was also the first time "God Defend New Zealand" played as New Zealand's national anthem instead of "God Save the Queen".^[35] Before and during the Olympic Games, the New Zealand rowing team stayed in the Bavarian village of Lenggries, where they were adopted by the locals as their own. When the 2007 World Rowing Championships were again held in Munich, Chris Nilsson—who was by then a rowing coach—arranged for the New Zealand team to stay at Lenggries once more, rekindling old friendships.^[43]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Murray Watkinson	Single sculls	7:51.29	2 R	8:11.51	3 SA/B	8:30.88	5 FB	8:05.42	10
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