Peter Taylor (rower)

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Peter Taylor (in black) at the 2010 World Cup award ceremony

Peter Taylor (* 3. January 1984 in Lower Hutt ) is a former New Zealand lightweight - rowers .

Athletic career

Peter Taylor began rowing in 1997. In 2006 he won the lightweight double scull title at the U23 World Championships together with Graham Oberlin-Brown . In 2007, the two started in the Rowing World Cup and the World Championships , but only achieved a top position at the World Cup in Lucerne with eighth place. In 2008 Storm Uru switched to Peter Taylor in the lightweight double scull. The two qualified for the Olympic Games in Lucerne and finished seventh in Beijing.

In 2009 Taylor and Uru won two World Cup regattas and also won the gold medal at the World Championships in Poznan . In 2010 the World Championships took place in New Zealand, Taylor and Uru received the bronze medal in front of a home crowd. The following year, the two New Zealanders won the silver medal at the World Championships in Bled . Having received a medal at the season highlight every year since 2009, Taylor and Uru also reached the medal ranks at the 2012 Olympics and finished in third place.

In 2013 Taylor switched from the lightweight double scull to the lightweight four without a helmsman . At the World Championships , James Hunter , James Lassche , Peter Taylor and Curtis Rapley won the silver medal behind the Danes after the four had previously won all three World Cup regattas. In 2014 the four-man won the World Cup twice , James Lassche was injured at the World Championships and Alistair Bond came on board as a substitute. As in the previous year, Hunter, Bond, Taylor and Rapley won silver behind the Danish four. In 2015, Peter Taylor formed a lightweight double scull with Hayden Cohen , but the two only reached the C-final at the World Championships . At the 2016 Olympic Games , the New Zealand lightweight four-man rowed to fifth place with Lassche, Taylor, Bond and Hunter.

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personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand rower
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Hutt