Donald Rowlands

No words can truly document and record what this man did for rowing. From 3 seat in the 1950 Empire Games eight he went on to win the gold medal in the single sculls at the Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954 and was reserve for the rowing crews at the Melbourne Olympic Games in…

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Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross was a rower from the Auckland Rowing Club, and he was selected in the coxless four for the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Canada, where they finished in third position gaining the bronze medal. Following his active rowing career, he was a rowing selector for several years and the New Zealand team…

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Glenda Rodger

Glenda’s two occasions in the New Zealand singlet were at the 1978 World Championships at Lake Karapiro in both the eight and the coxed four finishing in seventh position in both events.

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Tom Reid

Tom first represented New Zealand at the 1964 FISA European Championships at Amsterdam in the double sculls finishing in 11th position. This was an attempt to impress the Olympic Games selectors for selection to the Olympic Games in Tokyo which was not successful. Tom also competed in the double sculls in the test races against…

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Gary Reid

Gary, being number 186 on the New Zealand representatives list is exactly 100 after his father Tom. Gary was in the single sculls at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and finished in 7th place from 16 starters. He was also selected in the quad sculls for the 1985 World Championships and Hazelwinkel but…

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