Tony Hurt

Anthony John "Tony" Hurt (born March 30, 1946 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals in eighth .

At the 1972 Olympic Games on the Oberschleissheim regatta course near Munich, German rowers from the west competed as defending champions and those from the east as reigning world champions. The New Zealand eighth had won bronze at the 1970 World Cup. In 1972, Dick Joyce , Wybo Veldman , John Hunter , Gary Robertson and helmsman Simon Dickie were still in the boat from the bronze eight . Together with Trevor Coker , Athol Earl and Lindsay Wilson , Tony Hurt was also new. The New Zealanders won the final with almost three seconds ahead of the Americans, who finished just before the boat from the GDR.

At the 1974 World Cup, the New Zealanders won bronze, with only Hurt, Wilson, Earl and Coker from the 1972 boat taking part. In 1975, Hurt was not among eighth, who won bronze again. For the 1976 Olympic Games on the Bassin Olympique in Montreal, Hurt and Dickie returned to eighth, the New Zealand eighth won the bronze medal, as in the two previous world championships.

Web links

• Tony Hurt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World championships in figure eight on Sport-komplett.de