Hamish Clive Carter (born 28 April 1971 in

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) is a New Zealand

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. He won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, his second Olympic games. Carter also competed on the

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circuit as a professional for many years, culminating in a silver medal in 2006 before announcing his retirement early in 2007. During his career he won twelve ITU world cup races. Carter attended

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where he was a successful rower, competing twice in the

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Carter won the bronze medal in triathlon at the

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and then went on to win the triathlon gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating fellow New Zealander,

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. Carter's time was 1:51:07.73, less than eight seconds faster than Docherty's. On 3 September 2006 in

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, Carter won silver at the

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after finishing 17 seconds behind

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. In October 2006, Hamish Carter won the Xterra World Championship in Maui, Hawaii defeating a field of more experienced off-road triathletes. On 6 March 2007 he announced his retirement.Docherty hopes to carry on from Carter
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Hamish 1971 births Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand People educated at Auckland Grammar School Living people Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand Olympic triathletes of New Zealand Sportspeople from Auckland Triathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Triathletes at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Triathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics Triathletes at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Olympic medalists in triathlon Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics New Zealand male triathletes Commonwealth Games medallists in triathlon