Donald Alan Symon (born 20 May 1960) is a former New Zealand

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who won an Olympic bronze medal at the

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. Symon was born in 1960 in

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, New Zealand. Along with Kevin Lawton,

Barrie Mabbott James Barrie Mabbott (born 19 November 1960) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Biography Mabbott was born in 1960 in Carterton. He began rowing at Westlake Boys High S ...

Ross Tong Ross Stuart Tong (born 21 April 1961) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Tong was born in 1961 in Wanganui, New Zealand. His father, Allan Tong, was an Olympic rower in 19 ...

and

Brett Hollister Brett James Hollister (born 19 May 1966) is a former New Zealand rowing cox who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Since 2004, he had held management positions for rugby union and is the current chief execu ...

(cox) Symon won the bronze medal in the coxed four. Symon also won a silver medal in the coxless four and a bronze medal in the eight at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in

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. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 508 by the

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* * 1960 births Living people New Zealand male rowers Olympic rowers for New Zealand Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Rowers from Christchurch Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-rowing-bio-stub