New Zealand rower
Grant McAuley
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Birth name | Grant R. F. McAuley |
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Nationality | New Zealand |
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Born | (1949-07-06) 6 July 1949 (age 75)[1] Auckland, New Zealand |
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Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1] |
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Weight | 84 kg (185 lb)[1] |
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Grant R. F. McAuley (born 6 July 1949) is a New Zealand rower.
McAuley was born in 1949 in Auckland, New Zealand.[1][2] He rowed with the eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal.[3] He represented New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxless four in a team with Bob Murphy, David Lindstrom, and Des Lock, narrowly beaten by the team from the Soviet Union to fourth place.[4] He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 358 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.[5] He competed in the 1978 World Rowing Championships in the double sculls with John White and they came sixth in the final.[6] At the 1979 World Rowing Championships held at Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he won a silver medal with the eight.[7] McAuley won the Bay of Plenty Sportsman of the Year award in 1979.[8]
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