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Sam Bosworth

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Sam Bosworth
Bosworth in 2021
Personal information
Born(1994-04-05)5 April 1994(age 30)
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)[1]
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Men'srowing
RepresentingNew Zealand
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Eight
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Sarasota Eight (women)

Sam Bosworth(born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealandcoxswain.He is an Olympic champion and was the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event in a female crew.

Private life[edit]

Bosworth was born on 5 April 1994[1]and is fromWaiparain NorthCanterbury.[2]He received his education atChrist's CollegeinChristchurch,and he took up rowing while at the school during 2009,[3]moving to the sport from cricket.[4]He is enrolled for tertiary study atLincoln University,[2]studying towards a bachelor of Environmental Management and Planning.[3]In late 2016, he moved toCambridgeto be at the national rowing training centre.[4]

Rowing career[edit]

Bosworth is a member of the Avon Rowing Club.[3]At the 2012World Rowing Junior ChampionshipsinPlovdiv,Bulgaria, he won gold with the junior men's coxed four withTom Murray,Michael Brake,Cameron Webster, and Thomas Jenkins.[5]At the2013 World Rowing U23 ChampionshipsinLinz,Austria, he won silver with the U23 men's coxed four.[6]Bosworth won two subsequent silver medals at U23 World Championships in the same boat class in 2014 and 2015, both times beaten by the Italian team.[7][8]At the2016 World Rowing U23 ChampionshipsinRotterdam,Netherlands, the U23 men's coxed four finally won gold, beating the Italian team.[9]

In February 2017, theInternational Rowing Federationremoved gender-restrictions from coxswains,[10][4]and a month later, Bosworth was assigned the New Zealand women's eight.[2]2017 was his first year at elite level.[4]The crew won the June 2017World Rowing CupII inPoznań,Poland, and Bosworth became the first male cox to win an international women's rowing event.[2][11][12]On 2 July 2017, Bosworth's women's eight won theRemenham Challenge Cupat theHenley Royal Regatta.[13]Bosworth then coxed the New Zealand women'seightat the2017 World Rowing ChampionshipsinSarasota, Florida.When they surprisingly won their heat, displacing the favourite team from the USA to second place, he became the first male to win a race at a World Championship race with a female crew.[14][15]In the A-final, the New Zealand team came third to win a bronze medal.[1]He is the first male to ever cox for a female crew in New Zealand.[3]

In August 2021, he coxed the New Zealand men's eight to a gold medal at the2020 Tokyo Olympics.[12]

In December 2022, he announced his retirement from rowing and look to start his next stage of life in London.[16]

References[edit]

  1. ^abcd"Sam Bosworth".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  2. ^abcd"Sports scholar sets world rowing first".Lincoln University.26 July 2017. Archived fromthe originalon 8 October 2017.Retrieved8 October2017.
  3. ^abcd"Sam Bosworth".Rowing New Zealand.Retrieved7 October2017.
  4. ^abcdLeggat, David (2 September 2017)."Sam Bosworth dipping into fresh rowing territory".The New Zealand Herald.Retrieved8 October2017.
  5. ^"(JM4+) Junior Men's Coxed Four – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  6. ^"(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  7. ^"(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  8. ^"(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  9. ^"(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  10. ^"2017 Extraordinary Congress Minutes"(PDF).International Rowing Federation.17 February 2017. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 8 October 2017.Retrieved8 October2017.
  11. ^"(W8+) Women's Eight – Final".International Rowing Federation.Retrieved8 October2017.
  12. ^abCaldwell, Olivia (20 July 2017)."History-maker: Sam's the man for Kiwi women's rowing crew".Stuff.Retrieved7 October2017.
  13. ^"Inside Lines – Sunday 2nd July 2017".Henley Royal Regatta.Retrieved8 October2017.
  14. ^Brockman, Jim (26 September 2017)."World Rowing: For Kiwi coxswain, an historic victory".Sarasota Herald-Tribune.Retrieved8 October2017.
  15. ^Rounce, Henry (27 September 2017)."New Zealand women's rowing eight out to end one of sports' historic winning streaks".Newshub.Retrieved8 October2017.
  16. ^"Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Bosworth retires from rowing".30 December 2022.

External links[edit]

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