Dudley Storey

Dudley Storey
Medal record
Men's rowing
Competitor for  New Zealand
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico Coxed four
1972 Munich Coxless four
World Rowing Championships
1970 St. Catharines Eights

Dudley Leonard Storey OBE (born 27 November 1939 in Wairoa, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won 2 Olympic medals. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Storey won the Gold medal in the coxed four along with Dick Joyce, Ross Collinge, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox). At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Tonks, Ross Collinge and Noel Mills to win the Silver medal in the coxless four. Storey had previously competed in the coxed four at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and later managed the New Zealand rowing teams at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. He now coaches Baradene College Of The Sacred Heart's rowing squad.

In the 1983 New Year Honours, Storey was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to rowing.[1] Storey's medal-winning 1968 rowing crew was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 49214. p. 48. 31 December 1982. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

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