Wybo Veldman

Gerard Wybo Veldman (born October 21, 1946 in Padang , Sumatra ) is a former New Zealand rower who was Olympic champion in the eighth in 1972.

Veldman was born to Dutch parents in what is now Indonesia. He started for the Whakatane Rowing Club . At the 1968 Olympic Games , he finished fourth with eighth . At the 1970 World Cup in St. Catharines , Gilbert Cawood , John Hunter and Wybo Veldman were from the eighth of 1968 . In the line-up of Warren Cole , Wybo Veldman, Murray Watkinson , John Hunter, Dick Joyce , Dudley Storey , Gary Robertson , Gilbert Cawood and helmsman Simon Dickie , the boat trained by Rusty Robertson won third place behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union .

After a few changes, the eighth competed at the 1971 European Championships in Copenhagen with Tony Hurt , Wybo Veldman, Dick Joyce, John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson , Athol Earl , Trevor Coker , Gary Robertson and Simon Dickie and won in front of the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union.

At the 1972 Olympic Games on the Oberschleissheim regatta course near Munich, the New Zealand eighth won his preliminary run with the same line-up as in Copenhagen in 1971, but lost to the Germany eighth in the semi-finals . Apparently the New Zealanders had only saved their strengths, because in the Olympic final the New Zealand boat won safely ahead of the boats from the United States and the GDR, the boats from the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany remained behind without medals.

Web links

• Wybo Veldman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Championships in the eighth
• European championships in eighth