Athol Earl

Athol John "Joe" Earl (born October 1, 1952 in Christchurch ) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals in eighth .

At the 1972 Olympic Games on the Oberschleissheim regatta course near Munich, German rowers from the west competed as defending champions and those from the east as reigning world champions. The New Zealand eighth had won bronze at the 1970 World Cup. In 1972, Dick Joyce , Wybo Veldman , John Hunter , Gary Robertson and helmsman Simon Dickie were still in the boat from the bronze eight . Together with Trevor Coker , Lindsay Wilson and Tony Hurt , Athol Earl was the youngest member of the crew. The New Zealanders won the final with almost three seconds ahead of the Americans, who finished just before the boat from the GDR.

The New Zealanders won bronze at the 1974 and 1975 World Championships, with only Wilson, Earl and Coker from the 1972 boat taking part in both World Championships. For the 1976 Olympic Games on the Bassin Olympique in Montreal, Hurt and Dickie also returned to eighth place, while the New Zealand eighth won the bronze medal, as at the two previous World Championships.

Web links

• Joe Earl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Championships in the eighth