Ian Wright (rower)

Ian Wright (born December 9, 1961 in Wanganui , New Zealand ) is a former New Zealand rower and current rowing coach.

Wright won the bronze medal in the foursome with helmsman at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , along with George Keys , Gregory Johnston , Christopher White and Andrew Bird . At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona he was eleventh in the same competition, and in 1996 in Atlanta in a four-man without a helmsman, thirteenth.

At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh , he won silver in two without a helmsman with Barrie Mabbott and bronze in eight . He won his only world championship medal in a four-man without a helmsman in 1989 in Bled, then Yugoslavia .

Today Wright is a rowing coach. After taking care of the New Zealand U23 rowers with two world championship titles in the eighth position, he switched to the Swiss Rowing Association as head coach for Olympic projects in spring 2015 . With the lightweight four without a helmsman ( Mario Gyr , Simon Niepmann , Simon Schürch and Lucas Tramèr ) he became European champion in 2015 and 2016 , world champion in 2015 and finally Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 .

Web links

• Biography of Ian Wright
• Ian Wright in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Zealand's Ian Wright guides Switzerland to rowing gold at Rio Olympics. In: www.stuff.co.nz. Stuff, August 12, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 .