Sarah Gray (born 28 October 1990,
Cambridge, New Zealand
Cambridge (Māori: ''Kemureti'') is a town in the Waipa District of the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. Situated southeast of Hamilton, on the banks of the Waikato River, Cambridge is known as "The Town of Trees & Champions" ...
) is a New Zealand rower.
Under national coach
Dick Tonks
Richard William Tonks (born 21 February 1951) is a former national New Zealand rowing coach and a former rower who won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Through his coaching career he has coached crews to a total of 25 World ...
, Gray was placed in a women's quadruple scull with
Fiona Bourke
Fiona Bourke (born 16 October 1988, Dannevirke) is a New Zealand rower. She won the 2014 World Championship in the women's double sculls with Zoe Stevenson, having won the silver medal in the same team the year before. At the 2012 Summer Olymp ...
,
Eve MacFarlane
Eve Macfarlane (born 27 September 1992) is a New Zealand rower. Described as a "natural rower", she went to the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships within a few months of having taken up rowing and won a silver medal. She represented New Zeala ...
, and
Louise Trappitt. They surprised themselves by winning bronze at the regattas in
Hamburg
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Hamburgian(s)
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(Germany) and
Lucerne
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(Switzerland).
They maintained their form and won a bronze at the
2011 World Rowing Championships
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Worl ...
at
Lake Bled
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in
Bled
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, Slovenia.
At the
2012 Summer Olympics
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, she competed in the
women's quadruple sculls.
She is also an equine veterinarian at the
University of California
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's
William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in
Davis
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Places Antarctica
* Mount Davis (Antarctica)
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Canada
* Davis, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community
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. There, among her patients, she successfully treated a Western Classic Barrel racing champion for extensive lacerations, and aided his return to top form. Her work with horses has been featured in literary works like ''Equine ER: Stories from a Year in the Life of an Equine Veterinary Hospital'' by Leslie Guttman.
References
1990 births
Living people
New Zealand female rowers
Olympic rowers for New Zealand
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
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People from Cambridge, New Zealand
21st-century New Zealand women