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Edwin Smith (rower)
Edwin Smith (also known as Ted; 17 September 1922 – 15 January 1997) was a New Zealand rower from Auckland. Early life Smith was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 September 1922. He went to Rose Road Primary School in Grey Lynn and later Richmond Road School. He entered into a four and a half year Contract of Apprenticeship on 20 April 1938 as an Apprentice Fitter and Turner with Hubert Samual Tanner, New North Road, Auckland, Trailer Manufacture. In his youth he sailed ''Huia'' a mullet boat with the Thomson brothers as far north as the Bay of Islands, prior to and after the war he sailed with Ken Brown on Ghost a Bermudian sloop-rigged 28 foot yacht designed and built by Woollacott. Ted later sailed with D'Arcy Whiting. Military service Sergeant Edwin Smith (No 632850) served with the New Zealand 24th Battalion in Italy and Egypt. On 28 November 1938 at the age of 16 years 2 months, he attested for service in New Zealand in the Territorials and was given regimenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tinnock
William James Tinnock (5 April 1930 – 3 April 2017) was a New Zealand rower. William (known as Bill) Tinnock was born on 5 April 1930 in Auckland, New Zealand. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Grahame Jarratt, Don Rowlands and Edwin Smith. At the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, he won another silver medal in the men's coxed four. Bill was the stroke seat of the first-ever Maddi Cup eight that won gold for Mount Albert Grammar. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed as part of the men's coxed four without progressing through to the finals. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 75 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee The New Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, The ''New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association'') is both the National Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Rowlands
Sir Donald David Rowlands (17 June 1926 – 18 March 2015) was a New Zealand rower and businessman. Early life and family Rowlands was born in 1926, the third child of Ruby Winifred (née Harrison) and Horace Edward Rowlands, and was raised in the small town of Ōwhango where his father was a sawmill manager. When aged five, Rowlands contracted rheumatic fever and had congested lungs, and missed a year's school as a result. Rowing Rowlands rowed for the West End Rowing Club in Auckland, and won nine New Zealand national rowing titles in the single sculls, double sculls and eights between 1948 and 1957. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Grahame Jarratt, Edwin Smith and Bill Tinnock. At the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, he won the gold medal in the men's single sculls. He was included in the New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grahame Jarratt
Grahame Laughlan Jarratt (10 January 1929 – 5 August 2011) was a New Zealand rower. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Kerry Ashby Kerry Ayling Ashby (4 September 1928 – 3 March 2015) was a New Zealand rower. Early life and family Ashby was born in Devonport on Auckland's North Shore in 1928, the son of Catherine Adele (née Gozar) and Edward Ashby, and the older broth ..., Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Don Rowlands, Edwin Smith (rower), Edwin Smith and Bill Tinnock. References 1929 births 2011 deaths New Zealand male rowers Rowers at the 1950 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games {{NewZealand-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Engel
Thomas Carl Engel (19 November 1927 – 6 December 1979) was a New Zealand rower who won a silver medal at the 1950 British Empire Games. Biography Born in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn on 19 November 1927, Engel was the son of Ernest Carl Engel and Anneta Eileen Engel (née Donohue). He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, where he enjoyed success as a boxer, defeating Kerry Ashby in the final of the weight division of the school's boxing championships in 1944. He won the same division as well as the open championship the following year. Engel was the stroke of the West End Rowing Club eight that won the men's eight title at the New Zealand championships in 1949; the other crew members were Kerry Ashby, Bill Tinnock, Murray Ashby, Don Rowlands, Grahame Jarratt Grahame Laughlan Jarratt (10 January 1929 – 5 August 2011) was a New Zealand rower. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Culpan
Bruce Ewen Culpan (16 June 1930 – 24 August 2021) was a New Zealand rower who won silver medals representing his country at the 1950 British Empire Games and 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He worked as a pharmacist for nearly six decades in the Auckland suburb of Remuera. Early life Born in the Auckland suburb of Herne Bay on 16 June 1930, Culpan was the son of Hector Cleve Culpan and Olive Maud Culpan (née Cameron). He grew up in the Auckland suburb of Westmere and was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School. Rowing At the 1950 British Empire Games, Culpan won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Thomas Engel, Grahame Jarratt, Don Rowlands, Edwin Smith and Bill Tinnock. At the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, he was the stroke seat of the men's coxed four that won another silver medal. Professional life Culpan started a 4-year apprenticeship at Grafton Pharmacy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Ashby
Murray Ashby (12 May 1931 – 18 November 1990) was a New Zealand rower. Ashby was born in 1931, the son of Edward (known as Ted Ashby) and Catherine Adele (née Gozar) Ashby, and the younger brother of Kerry Ashby. He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School from 1944 to 1947, and was a member of the school's 1st XV rugby union team in 1946 and 1947, and rowing eight in the same two years. Murray was in the first-ever Maddi Cup eights race that won gold in 1947 for Mount Albert Grammar School. The blue ribbon event for New Zealand secondary school rowers. He was the youngest in the crew, aged 15 years old. In 1949, he was part of the crew who won the first-ever redcoats (premier titles) in the men's eight for West End Rowing Club on Lake Karapiro. Back then he was the youngest person in New Zealand to win a redcoat. The whole crew was selected for the men's New Zealand eight for the 1950 British Empire Games. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Ashby
Kerry Ayling Ashby (4 September 1928 – 3 March 2015) was a New Zealand rower. Early life and family Ashby was born in Devonport on Auckland's North Shore in 1928, the son of Catherine Adele (née Gozar) and Edward Ashby, and the older brother of Murray Ashby. From 1943 to 1946 Ashby was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, where he was a prefect, captain of the rowing team and member of the 1st XV rugby union team. He played senior club rugby for the Grammar Old Boys club. He was married to swimmer Winifred Griffin. Rowing career Ashby rowed for the West End Rowing Club in Auckland, and won New Zealand national championship titles in the men's eights in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1963, the men's coxed four in 1953 and the men's double sculls in 1956. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Grahame Jarratt, Don Rowlands, Edwin Smith and B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Adam
Donald Adam is a former New Zealand rower. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Grahame Jarratt, Don Rowlands, Edwin Smith and Bill Tinnock William James Tinnock (5 April 1930 – 3 April 2017) was a New Zealand rower. William (known as Bill) Tinnock was born on 5 April 1930 in Auckland, New Zealand. At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eig .... External links * 20th-century births Year of death missing New Zealand male rowers Rowers at the 1950 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand people Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games {{NewZealand-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waikato River
The Waikato River is the longest river in New Zealand, running for through the North Island. It rises on the eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu, joining the Tongariro River system and flowing through Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake. It then drains Taupō at the lake's northeastern edge, creates the Huka Falls, and flows northwest through the Waikato Plains. It empties into the Tasman Sea south of Auckland, at Port Waikato. It gives its name to the Waikato region that surrounds the Waikato Plains. The present course of the river was largely formed about 17,000 years ago. Contributing factors were climate warming, forest being reestablished in the river headwaters and the deepening, rather than widening, of the existing river channel. The channel was gradually eroded as far up river as Piarere, leaving the old Hinuera channel through the Hinuera Gap high and dry. The remains of the old course are seen clearly at Hinuera, where the cliffs mark the ancient river edges. The Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Rowing Club
West End Rowing Club is based at Saunders Reserve on Rosebank Peninsula, in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand. It has won numerous national, British Empire Games, Commonwealth, World and Olympic titles, with four club members winning five Olympic gold medals. A current "West Ender" is Mahé Drysdale, five time Single Scull World Champion and Olympic gold medallist. History The West End Rowing Club was founded in Ponsonby in 1884, with training taking place in St Mary's Bay (now Westhaven). Success came early to the Club with the first regatta win being recorded in 1885. As the city of Auckland developed so did West End with the growing in numbers and successes over the early decades of the twentieth century. Even the destruction of virtually all of the Club's boats in a cyclone which struck Auckland in 1914 where large seas flooded the boathouse was overcome. In 1949 the club won its first red-coat (premier title) with victory in the premier eight on Lake Karapiro. The crew inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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