sport.wikisort.org - AthleteGeorge Spencer Bridgewater MNZM (born 18 January 1983) is a former New Zealand rower who competed in the pair at international level with Nathan Twaddle. The pair began representing New Zealand together in 2004 and won bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Bridgewater went to his third Summer Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
New Zealand rower
George Bridgewater
MNZM
 Bridgewater in 2012 |
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Birth name | George Spencer Bridgewater |
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Born | (1983-01-18) 18 January 1983 (age 39) Wellington, New Zealand |
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Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) |
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Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) |
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Rowing career
Bridgewater was born in 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand.[1] He rowed for the Avon club based in Christchurch, and won several titles at New Zealand Rowing Championships, beginning in 2002.[citation needed]
Bridgewater and Twaddle finished fourth in the pairs final at the Athens Olympics. They won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in 2005, in the Magic 45 minutes where four New Zealand crews won gold medals. The pair finished second in the 2006 and 2007 World Rowing Championships.
In 2008, following the Beijing Olympics, Bridgewater matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew in the 155th University Boat Race on 29 March 2009, rowing at seven. While at Oxford, Bridgewater stroked the Oriel College 1st Eight in Summer Eights, bumping Balliol College to finish 3rd on the river.
In the 2009 New Year Honours, Bridgewater was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing.[2] Later that year he graduated from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School with an MBA. He worked for Morgan Stanley in Singapore,[3] but returned to New Zealand in June 2014 to prepare for the 2016 Olympics.[1][4] He competed in the quadruple sculls at Rio with Nathan Flannery, John Storey, and Jade Uru, and the team came tenth.[5]
Private life
Bridgewater has two children.[4]
References
- "George Bridgewater". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- "New Year honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- "Summer pix competition". Dominion Post. 11 January 2013. p. 4.
- Weaser, Laura (23 June 2015). "George Bridgewater's going for gold". New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
- "(M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
External links
World champions – Men's coxless pair |
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- 1962:
(Dieter Bender, Günther Zumkeller)
- 1966:
(Peter Kremtz, Roland Göhler)
- 1970:
(Peter Gorny, Werner Klatt)
- 1974:
(Bernd Landvoigt, Jörg Landvoigt)
- 1975:
(Bernd Landvoigt, Jörg Landvoigt)
- 1977:
(Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitaliy Eliseyev)
- 1978:
(Bernd Landvoigt, Jörg Landvoigt)
- 1979:
(Bernd Landvoigt, Jörg Landvoigt)
- 1981:
(Yuriy Pimenov, Nikolay Pimenov)
- 1982:
(Hans Magnus Grepperud, Sverre Løken)
- 1983:
(Carl Ertel, Ulf Sauerbrey)
- 1985:
(Nikolay Pimenov, Yuriy Pimenov)
- 1986:
(Yuriy Pimenov, Nikolay Pimenov)
- 1987:
(Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave)
- 1989:
(Thomas Jung, Uwe Kellner)
- 1990:
(Thomas Jung, Uwe Kellner)
- 1991:
(Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent)
- 1993:
(Matthew Pinsent, Steve Redgrave)
- 1994:
(Matthew Pinsent, Steve Redgrave)
- 1995:
(Matthew Pinsent, Steve Redgrave)
- 1997:
(Michel Andrieux, Jean-Christophe Rolland)
- 1998:
(Detlef Kirchhoff, Robert Sens)
- 1999:
(Drew Ginn, James Tomkins)
- 2001:
(James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent)
- 2002:
(James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent)
- 2003:
(Drew Ginn, James Tomkins)
- 2005:
(Nathan Twaddle, George Bridgewater)
- 2006:
(Drew Ginn, Duncan Free)
- 2007:
(Drew Ginn, Duncan Free)
- 2009:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2010:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2011:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2013:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2014:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2015:
(Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
- 2017:
(Matteo Lodo, Giuseppe Vicino)
- 2018:
(Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković)
- 2019:
(Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković)
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На других языках
- [en] George Bridgewater
[fr] George Bridgewater
George Bridgewater, né le 18 janvier 1983 à Wellington, est un rameur d'aviron néo-zélandais.
[it] George Bridgewater
George Bridgewater (Wellington, 18 gennaio 1983) è un canottiere neozelandese, vincitore della medaglia di bronzo nel 2 senza a Pechino 2008 in coppia con Nathan Twaddle.
[ru] Бриджуотер, Джордж
Джордж Бриджуотер (англ. George Spencer Bridgewater; 18 января 1983, Веллингтон, Новая Зеландия) — новозеландский гребец (академическая гребля), трёхкратный призёр чемпионатов мира по академической гребле 2005—07 годов; бронзовый призёр летних Олимпийских игр 2008 года в соревновании двоек[1].
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