Dane Boswell (born 7 May 1984) is a New Zealand

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. Boswell was born in 1984 and grew up in Kerikeri. His father is

Darien Boswell Darien Graham Boswell (23 May 1938 – 11 February 2018) was a New Zealand rower. Boswell was born in Auckland in 1938. At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew mem ...

, who represented New Zealand in rowing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Prime Minister's Athlete Scholarship, which enabled him to attend the

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. In 2006 Boswell was selected as stroke in the New Zealand

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, along with James Dallinger, Paul Gerritsen, Steven Cottle, and cox

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. They won gold at that year's

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, Belgium, also setting a new world record time of 6.03 minutes. The same team won bronze at the 2006 World Championships in Eton, UK. During 2007, Boswell was a member of the New Zealand eight that competed at the

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s in

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and Lucerne, but was not in the boat that went to that year's

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. In 2009, Boswell received a two-months ban from the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand for having tested positive for

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, a

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. It was accepted that it was an inadvertent mistake, but he was found guilty of not having followed the necessary procedure of advising his doctor that he is an athlete when the drug was prescribed for an injury.

References

1984 births Living people New Zealand male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand {{NewZealand-rowing-bio-stub