Gary Robertson

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Gary David Robertson (born April 12, 1950 in Oamaru ) is a former New Zealand rower who was Olympic champion in the eighth place in 1972.

At the 1970 World Cup in St. Catharines , the New Zealand eighth in the line-up, Warren Cole , Wybo Veldman , Murray Watkinson , John Hunter , Dick Joyce , Dudley Storey , Gary Robertson, Gilbert Cawood and Simon Dickie finished third behind the boats from the GDR and from the Soviet Union. Three rowers from this boat started eighth in the 1968 Olympic Games and finished fourth, three rowers and helmsman Simon Dickie had become Olympic champions in a four-man with helmsman; Watkinson and Robertson were new, with Robertson being the nephew of trainer Rusty Robertson.

After a few changes, the eighth competed at the 1971 European Championships in Copenhagen with Tony Hurt , Wybo Veldman, Dick Joyce, John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson , Athol Earl , Trevor Coker , Gary Robertson and Simon Dickie and won in front of the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union.

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.

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