Hamish Bond

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamish Bond (2013)
Hamish Bond Road cycling
To person
Date of birth February 13, 1986
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
Most important successes
Oceania Championships
2017 bronze - individual time trial
Commonwealth Games
2018 bronze - individual time trial
Last updated: September 25, 2019

Hamish Bond MNZM (born February 13, 1986 in Dunedin ) is a New Zealand rower who won eight world titles and two Olympic gold medals by 2016. He has also been active as a cyclist since 2016 .

Athletic career

rowing

Bond started in 2003 and 2004 at the Junior World Championships in eight , in 2005 he was at the U23 World Championships in four without a helmsman . In 2006 he was in the international adult class for the first time, but did not reach the A-final at the rowing world championships in 2006 with the uncontrolled foursome. In 2007 Carl Meyer , James Dallinger , Eric Murray and Hamish Bond won the World Cup in Amsterdam and took third place in Lucerne. The four New Zealanders won the title at the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich. In the Olympic season the four reached the A-final twice in the World Cup, but only finished sixth in Lucerne and fifth in Poznan. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, they missed the A final and finished seventh in the final score.

In 2009, Bond and Murray switched to the two-man without a helmsman , and in this boat class they remained unbeaten in the World Cup and at all international championships until 2016. They won fourteen World Cup races by 2015, as well as the 2009 , 2010 and 2011 World Championships , with the British Peter Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge each receiving World Championship silver. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Murray and Bond rowed the gold medal in front of the French two. At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju they rowed the gold medal again. The following year, Murray and Bond competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam both in a two-man without a helmsman and in a two-man with a helmsman ; the two New Zealanders won the world championship in both boat classes, with Caleb Shepherd being the helmsman . In 2015, Murray and Bond no longer competed in two with a helmsman, but their dominance remained in the uncontrolled two. At the 2015 World Championships , they won their sixth consecutive world title and had a six-second lead over Britons James Foad and Matt Langridge at the finish . In 2016, the two New Zealanders continued their winning streak, at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro they won Olympic gold for the second time, their gap to the runner-up from South Africa was almost three seconds. In July 2018, Murray and Bond were awarded the Thomas Keller Medal .

Cycling

Hamish Bond has also competed in road bike races since 2016. In 2017 he was third in the Oceania Championship in the individual time trial and the New Zealand Championship. In the same year he was nominated for the start in the individual time trial at the 2017 Road World Championships in Bergen , Norway . On a 31-kilometer route (with a 311-meter climb on the last 3.4 kilometers), he reached 39th place out of 64 classified in 48:15 minutes with 3:34 minutes on winner Tom Dumoulin . In 2018 he won his first New Zealand championship title in the individual time trial. In the same year he started the time trial at the Road World Championships 2018 in Innsbruck and finished 25th under 56 on a 52.5 km course (with 654 hm) in 1:07:52, +4:50 behind the new world champion Rohan Dennis Classified.

At the beginning of February 2019, Hamish Bond became New Zealand champion in the singles pursuit and set a national record with 4: 12.436 minutes. Despite this achievement, the New Zealand Federation did not nominate him for the 2019 UCI Track World Championships in Poland, as the deadline for meeting the criteria had passed on January 29th.

Successes - cycling

Street

2017
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Individual Time Trial
2018
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.png Oceania Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • bronze Commonwealth Games - Individual Time Trial
2020
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial

train

2019
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - one's pursuit

family

Hamish Bond's younger brother Alistair Bond is also a world-class rower, starting in lightweight rowing.

Web links

Commons : Hamish Bond  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Morrish: An underdog story: Rower Hamish Bond is the man to watch at the 2017 Worlds Time Trial. In: cyclist.co.uk. September 15, 2017, accessed September 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ UCI 2017 World Championchips, 20th of September - Men Elite Individual Time Trial. Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ James and Bond set records at track cycling nationals. In: radionz.co.nz. February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cycling: Hamish Bond falls short of World Championship target. In: newshub.co.nz. February 9, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bond, Hamish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand rower
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunedin