Legacy Programme – New Zealand Rowing Foundation

About the Programme

The Legacy Programme celebrates and preserves the rich history of rowing in New Zealand, recognising those who have contributed to the sport while ensuring their stories continue to inspire and support future generations of rowers. These stories form part of New Zealand’s wider sporting heritage.

Our New Zealand representatives have been accorded a chronological order and the number of Legacy Medals will keep increasing as new representatives are selected.

All of these representative New Zealand rowers will be progressively invited to receive a commemorative medal saluting their contribution to the history of New Zealand Rowing.

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MEDAL WINNERS

David Molesworth

David first represented New Zealand at the 1964 FISA European Championships at Amsterdam in the double sculls finishing in 11th...

Tania Delaney

Tania won her legacy medal award in 1991 at the World Championships in Vienna, Austria, where she was in the...

Richard Beaumont

Richard first represented New Zealand at the 2008 World Championships at Linz, Austria, rowing in the lightweight coxless pair and...

Charlie Saunders

Charlie rowed for both the Wairau and Blenheim clubs winning a red coat in the coxless pair in 1927 for...

Ivan Sutherland

Ivan has had a lifetime involvement with the sport and continues to this day as the chairman of the New...

Liz Cato

Liz was also a member of the first women’s crew to compete at the World Championships in 1974 in Lucerne,...

Graeme Lawrence

The Lawrence brothers had a short period of rowing together out of the Otago Rowing Club including winning the New...

Ross Collinge

Ross burst onto the scene first in the 1967 test series against Australia in the coxed four and was in...

Bruce Culpan

Bruce was in 2 seat in the eight at the Empire Games in 1950 and is the only surviving member...

Douglas Pulman

Doug was just out of school when he was elected as coxswain for the Oamaru four moving from Hamilton to...

Robin Clarke

Robin’s first New Zealand selection was in the double Scull for the world championship at Hazelwinkel in 1985 where she...

John Gibbons

John was the second Wellingtonian selected in the 1963-64 New Zealand training squad which went on to compete in the...

Nathan Twaddle

Nathan Twaddle etched an outstanding rowing career over eight seasons starting from 2002 at World Cup 3 in Munich, Germany,...

Peter Aitchison

Peter commenced his rowing career in 1953 competing at the Maadi regatta thereafter, rowing through the grades with great success...

Vicky Colville

Vicky was coxswain of the first women’s crew to compete at the World Championships in 1974 in Lucerne, Switzerland, in...

Simon Dickie

Simon was coxswain in New Zealand crews for five years from 1968 to 1976 and would be New Zealand’s most...

Chris McAsey

Chris was the second member of the Auckland Rowing club selected in the coxed four for the Commonwealth Championships in...

Alan Grey

Alan Grey was selected in the eight oar crew for the 1962 British Commonwealth Games in Perth where they won...

Murray Lawrence

The Lawrence brothers had a short period of rowing together out of the Otago Rowing Club including winning the New...

Alan Webster

Alan first came into the New Zealand eight crew in 1961 for the internal test series against Australia and followed...

Legacy Medal Winners

The New Zealand Rowing Foundation has already formally presented many Legacy Medals to their recipients and will continue to do so at selected special and formal events in the future. The citations of all those that have received their Legacy Medals so far are detailed in medal order below.

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Medal: #35

Donald Rowlands

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Medal: #19

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Medal: #3

Charlie Saunders

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