Dick Joyce (rower)
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| Birth name | Richard John Joyce | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1 May 1946 Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard John "Dick" Joyce (born 1 May 1946) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic gold medals during his career.
Joyce was born in 1946 in Wellington, New Zealand. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Joyce won the coxed four along with Dudley Storey, Ross Collinge, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox). At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Tony Hurt, Wybo Veldman, John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Trevor Coker, Gary Robertson and Simon Dickie (cox) to win the eights.
Joyce is one of only ten New Zealanders to have won two or more Olympic gold medals. He later owned an engineering business in Wellington.[1]
References
- ↑ Maddaford, Terry (26 July 2002). "Rowing: Stroking aside the decades". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
External links
- Dick Joyce at WorldRowing.com from FISA
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