Dick Joyce

Richard John "Dick" Joyce (born May 1, 1946 in Wellington ) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic gold medals.

Joyce started for the Wellington Rowing Club . At the 1968 Olympic Games , he won the Olympic gold medal in a four-man with Dudley Storey , Ross Collinge , Warren Cole and the helmsman Simon Dickie in front of the boats from the GDR and Switzerland. This was the first ever Olympic gold medal for New Zealand's rowers and the first medal in 36 years.

At the 1970 World Championships in St. Catharines , Storey, Cole, Joyce and Dickie rowed in the New Zealand eighth , which won bronze behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. Then Storey and Cole switched to the foursome without , with which they won the Olympic silver medal in 1972. The eighth, trained by Rusty Robertson, competed at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 and won in the cast Tony Hurt , Wybo Veldman , Dick Joyce, John Hunter , Lindsay Wilson , Athol Earl , Trevor Coker , Gary Robertson and Simon Dickie in front of the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. In addition to Joyce and Dickie, Veldman, Hunter and Robertson also took part in winning the bronze medal in 1970.

At the 1972 Olympic Games on the Oberschleissheim regatta course near Munich, the New Zealand eighth won his preliminary run with the same line-up as in Copenhagen in 1971, but lost to the Germany eighth in the semi-finals . Apparently the New Zealanders had only saved their strengths, because in the Olympic final the New Zealand boat won safely ahead of the boats from the United States and the GDR, the boats from the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany remained behind without medals.

Web links

• Dick Joyce in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Championships in the eighth
• European championships in eighth