Nathan Flannery (born 22 October 1992) is a New Zealand rower who started with the sport in 2006.
He qualified in 2016 to row in the New Zealand's men's quadruple scull. At the Olympic qualifying regatta in
Lucerne
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, Switzerland, in May 2016—the last chance to qualify for the 2016 Olympics—they came third behind teams from Russia and Canada, and thus did not qualify. After a positive doping test returned by Russian crew member
Sergey Fedorovtsev
Sergey Anatolyevich Fedorovtsev (russian: Сергей Анатольевич Федоровцев, born 31 January 1980) is a Russian rower.
Career
Competing in quadruple sculls, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and the European title ...
, the Russian team was disqualified by the world rowing federation and the New Zealand team was assigned an Olympic quota spot.
For the competition in Rio, Flannery replaced
Robbie Manson
Robert Manson (born 11 October 1989) is a New Zealand rower.
Manson was born in 1989. He is from a family of rowers, with his father Greg the singles lightweight national champion in 1985, and his brother Karl also competing internationally.
H ...
in the bow.
The other two team mates are
George Bridgewater
George Spencer Bridgewater (born 18 January 1983) is a former New Zealand rower who competed in the pair at international level with Nathan Twaddle. The pair began representing New Zealand together in 2004 and won bronze medals at the 2008 Su ...
and
Jade Uru.
References
1992 births
Living people
New Zealand male rowers
Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of New Zealand
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