Donald Cowie

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Donald Cowie sailing
Nationality: New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
Birthday: 5th January 1962
Place of birth: Palmerston North
Size: 184 cm
Weight: 103 kg
Society: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
Boat classes: Star , Soling
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Barcelona 1992 star

Donald John "Don" Cowie (born January 5, 1962 in Palmerston North ) is a former New Zealand sailor .

successes

Donald Cowie took part in three Olympic Games . In 1992 he started in Barcelona in the Starboot as a crew member of skipper Rod Davis and won the silver medal with him. With 58.4 points she finished the regatta behind the Americans Mark Reynolds and Hal Haenel and in front of the Canadians Eric Jespersen and Ross MacDonald in second place. Four years later , Cowie and Davis sailed together again in Atlanta , but this time didn't get past fifth place, one point behind fourth. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , Cowie im Soling was another crew member of Rod Davis alongside Alan Smith . After the preliminary round in the Fleet Race , they qualified as the second best team directly for the quarter-finals, which, like the group phase in between , was held in the Match Race . Although they won two out of five races like the Dutch and the Norwegians, they had lost in a direct duel against the two boats, which is why they were classified in fifth place behind them and thus eliminated.

In 1993 Cowie was a crew member of the winning German boat at the Admiral's Cup . In the same year he also won the title at the One-Ton-Cup . He also sailed several times in the America's Cup . He made his debut in 1988 and was a member of Team New Zealand at the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup , for which he was again active in 2007 . At the Louis Vuitton Cup 2003 he was a crew member of the US OneWorld team.

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