Simon Dickie

Simon was coxswain in New Zealand crews for five years from 1968 to 1976 and would be New Zealand’s most successful international coxswain. He coxed the coxed four boat to victory in 1968 Olympic Games when only 17 years old and followed this with bronze medal in the eight at the 1970 World Championships at St Catherine’s, and gold medals in the eight at the 1971 FISA European Championships in Copenhagen and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He returned to cox the eight in 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal claiming a further bronze medal. He was a medallist at three Olympic Games with two gold and a bronze medal.