Sam Bosworth (born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealand
coxswain
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. He is an Olympic champion and was the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event in a female crew.
Private life
Bosworth was born on 5 April 1994
and is from
Waipara
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It is at the junction of state highways 1 and 7, 60 kilometre ...
in North
Canterbury
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...
.
He received his education at
Christ's College in
Christchurch
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, and he took up rowing while at the school during 2009,
moving to the sport from cricket.
He is enrolled for tertiary study at
Lincoln University,
studying towards a bachelor of Environmental Management and Planning.
In late 2016, he moved to
Cambridge
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to be at the national rowing training centre.
Rowing career
Bosworth is a member of the Avon Rowing Club.
At the 2012
World Rowing Junior Championships
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in
Plovdiv
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, Bulgaria, he won gold with the junior men's coxed four with
Tom Murray,
Michael Brake, Cameron Webster, and Thomas Jenkins. At the
2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in
Linz
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In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
, Austria, he won silver with the U23 men's coxed four. Bosworth won two subsequent silver medals at U23 World Championships in the same boat class in 2014 and 2015, both times beaten by the Italian team. At the
2016 World Rowing U23 Championships
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in
Rotterdam
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, Netherlands, the U23 men's coxed four finally won gold, beating the Italian team.
In February 2017, the
International Rowing Federation
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removed gender-restrictions from coxswains,
and a month later, Bosworth was assigned the New Zealand women's eight.
2017 was his first year at elite level.
The crew won the June 2017
World Rowing Cup
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II in
Poznań
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, Poland, and Bosworth became the first male cox to win an international women's rowing event.
On 2 July 2017, Bosworth's women's eight won the
Remenham Challenge Cup at the
Henley Royal Regatta
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. Bosworth then coxed the New Zealand women's
eight
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Years
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at the
2017 World Rowing Championships
The 2017 World Rowing Championships were the 47th edition of the World Rowing Championships that were held from 24 September to 1 October 2017 in Sarasota, Florida.
Host selection
During 2013, Plovdiv and Sarasota, Florida both applied to hos ...
in
Sarasota, Florida
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. When they surprisingly won their heat, displacing the favourite team from the USA to second place, he became the first male to win a race at a World Championship race with a female crew.
In the A-final, the New Zealand team came third to win a bronze medal.
He is the first male to ever cox for a female crew in New Zealand.
In August 2021, he coxed the New Zealand men's eight to a gold medal at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
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1994 births
Living people
New Zealand male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch
Coxswains (rowing)
People from North Canterbury
Sportspeople from Cambridge, New Zealand
Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics