Caleb Shepherd (born 29 June 1993) is a New Zealand

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. He holds the world best time in the men's coxed pair (2014) and represented at the

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in the New Zealand eight. He coxed the New Zealand women's eight to their 2019 World Championship title and has been twice a world champion.

Private life

Shepherd was born in 1993 and is from

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. He received his secondary education at

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as a boarder where he started coxing in 2006. Shepherd completed a master's degree at the

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in 2020, with a thesis on depression in autobiographical sports writing. Shepherd wants to become a sports journalist. Of

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descent, Shepherd affiliates to the

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Rowing

At the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships at

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, England, Shepherd won silver with the junior men's coxed four. At the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships at

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in Lithuania, Shepherd won bronze with the U23 men's coxed four. At the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships at

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in Austria, he won gold with the men's eight. A year later at the July

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, Italy, he won another gold with the same boat. On 29 August 2014, Shepherd was the cox for

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and Eric Murray when they set the world best time in the men's coxed pair at the

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in the final race, thus winning gold. As of 2021 that time still stood as the world's best. He came fourth at the

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with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the

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. This is the first time that a New Zealand eight qualified for the Olympics since

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, despite the famous performance of past eights including the

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. He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shepherd, Caleb 1993 births Living people New Zealand male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand People educated at Hamilton Boys' High School Sportspeople from Huntly, New Zealand Olympic rowers of New Zealand Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Ngāti Porou people Coxswains (rowing) Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand University of Waikato alumni