Noel Mills

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Noel Mills behind Ross Collinge at the 1971 European Championships

Noel Edward Mills (born January 13, 1944 in Auckland , † December 8, 2004 ) was a New Zealand rower .

Career

Noel Mills competed in a four-man with a helmsman at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 . The boat in the line-up Noel Mills, Ross Collinge , Dudley Storey , Raymond Barry and helmsman Peter Lindsay took fourth place behind the boats from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union. The following year at the Olympic Games in Munich , Richard Tonks , Dudley Storey, Ross Collinge and Noel Mills competed in a four-man without a helmsman . The New Zealanders won their run ahead of the Swiss and their semi-finals in front of the boats from the GDR and the FRG. In the final, the four-man from the GDR won with 1.37 seconds ahead of the New Zealanders, 2.77 seconds behind the German four-man won the bronze medal. 1973 at the European Championships in Moscow started Wybo Veldman and Noel Mills in the coxless pair . They won the silver medal behind the Romanians Dumitru Grumezescu and Ilie Oanță and in front of the German Germans Winfried Ringwald and Alois Bierl .

For the 1978 World Championships on Lake Karapiro , New Zealand , Noel Mills returned to the international stage. The New Zealand eight with Mark James , Gregory Johnston , David Rodger , Desmond Lock , Ross Lindstrom , David Lindstrom , Ivan Sutherland , Noel Mills and helmsman Alan Cotter won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and from the FRG.

Mills rowed for the Whakatane Rowing Club , for which he won twelve New Zealand championship titles. After his career, in addition to his main job in the construction industry, he worked as a trainer at his old club. In the late 1990s he moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he worked in building development.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ From 1962 to 1974 World Rowing Championships were only held every four years. In the years between the World Championships and the Olympic Games, European championships were held that were also open to non-Europeans. In 1971 an Argentine won in one and the New Zealanders in eight.
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 339f
  3. ↑ biography on olympic.org.nz
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Noel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mills, Noel Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2004