George Bridgewater
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George Spencer Bridgewater (born January 18, 1983 in Wellington ) is a former New Zealand rower .
Bridgewater began rowing in 1999. In 2001 he finished sixth at the Junior World Championships with eighth place . In 2002 he was fourth at the U23 World Championships with the four without a helmsman . In 2004 he moved to Nathan Twaddle for Rob Hellstrom in the double without a helmsman . After a seventh place at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, the two finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Athens . In 2005 Twaddle and Bridgewater won two World Cup regattas and also won the title at the World Championships in Gifu . In 2006, a fifth place in the Poznan World Cup was followed by a victory in Lucerne. At the World Championships in Eton , the two received the silver medal behind the Australians Drew Ginn and Duncan Free . In 2007 the New Zealanders won the World Cup in Amsterdam in the absence of the Australians. At the World Cup in Lucerne and at the World Championships in Munich , the Australians won ahead of the New Zealanders. Also in 2008 Twaddle and Bridgewater achieved a World Cup victory in Poznan. In the final of the Olympic Games in Beijing, Ginn and Free won ahead of Canadians David Calder and Scott Frandsen , with Twaddle and Bridgewater taking bronze medals behind them.
George Bridgewater then moved to England and took part in the Boat Race for Oxford in 2009 . After graduating, he was a dealer at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and Singapore . In 2014 he returned to New Zealand and to rowing. In 2015, he finished ninth at the World Championships with the New Zealand double scull , and the first eight boats were directly qualified for the Olympic Games. At the last qualifying regatta in Lucerne in May 2016, two further starting places for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were awarded, these went to Russia and Canada. The New Zealanders crossed the finish line in third place and, after the doping disqualification of the Russian boat, subsequently received the last starting place. In the Olympic regatta, the New Zealand double scull took tenth and last place.
Web links
- George Bridgewater in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original )
- George Bridgewater at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Portrait on rowingnz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bridgewater, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bridgewater, George Spencer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellington |