George Paterson

George was in the bow seat of the famed Oamaru coxed four, who at the 1962 Perth Empire Games, won the gold medal in defeating Australia by one foot. George went onto the Olympic Games in Tokyo being in the seven seat of the eight oar crew and was also reserve rower for the 1968 Olympic rowing crews at Mexico. In 1997 George was coach of the Under 23 coxless four/pair at the Australasian test regatta in Sydney.