James William Dallinger (born 30 September 1985) is a New Zealand

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. He was a member of the World Champion under-23 coxed four in 2006, and the world champion senior coxless four in 2007. He has been selected for the New Zealand coxless four to compete at the Beijing Olympics.

Early life

Dallinger was born in Hora Hora,

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and attended

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in nearby Hamilton. He started rowing with the school club in 2000, where he was coached by three-time Olympian Ian Wright (rower). In 2002 and 2003 Dallinger was part of the U19 Eight that won the Maadi Cup – the first two wins in the school's history.

International rowing

In 2006 Dallinger was selected as bowman in the New Zealand coxed four, along with Steven Cottle, Paul Gerritsen,

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and cox Daniel Quigley. They won gold at the FISA Under 23 World Championships also setting a new world-record time of 6.03 in Hazelwinkel, Belgium and Bronze at the

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, UK. In 2007 he made the NZ coxless four in the number two position with fellow crew members

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, Eric Murray and Carl Meyer under coach Chris Nillsen. The team won Gold at the 2007 World Championships in Munich, Germany thus qualifying them for the

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. In 2008 competing in the international regattas didn't go so well for Dallinger and his crew, getting 6th in Lucerne, Switzerland and 5th Poznan, Poland, and a gutting 7th in the Olympics after running through the heats being one of the 8 crew with less than 0.7 sec parting them. After the Games, Dallinger joined the Piha Surf Boat Rowing team bound for Biarritz, France to compete in the 2008 European Ocean Thunder series, with teammates Mark Bournville, Matt Kirk, Craig Knox, Brad Myton, Bruce O'Brien and Hayden Smith. Dallinger and the Piha boys took Gold in the final, giving them the title of the European Champions. In December 2010 Dallinger after coaching at the Waikato Regional Rowing Performance Centre for a few months decided to get back in the boat, training paid off and after the National Rowing trials was selected again as part of the Men's Coxless Four along with 2007/08 teammate Carl Meyer and two new boys Benjamin Hammond and Chris Harris the pair both from Wanaganui. Already they have had some success in the campaign to the World Championships later on this year in Bled, Slovenia securing a 2nd at the World Rowing Cup in Hamburg, Germany.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dallinger, James 1985 births Living people Olympic rowers for New Zealand Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Cambridge, New Zealand New Zealand male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand People educated at St Paul's Collegiate School