David Marsden Rodger ( born David Marsden Rodger ; born , ) is a New Zealand rower who played for New Zealand's rowing team in the 1970s and 1980s. Bronze medalist of the Summer Olympics in Montreal , two-time world champion, winner and medalist of many regattas of national importance.
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| Club | Waikato rowing club |
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| Height | 192 cm |
| The weight | 92 kg |
Biography
Dave Roger was born on June 18, 1955 in Hamilton , New Zealand .
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1974 season, when he joined the main team of the New Zealand national team and attended the world championship in Lucerne , from where he brought the bronze dignity award won in eights.
In 1975, at the world championship in Nottingham he again became a bronze medalist in the eights.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . In the oar steering eights program, he finished third in the main final behind teams from East Germany and Great Britain - thereby winning the bronze Olympic medal [1] .
After the Montreal Olympics, Roger remained in the New Zealand rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1977, he attended the World Championships in Amsterdam , from where he brought the silver dignity award, won in the four-wheelless.
In 1978, in the eights, he became a bronze medalist at the home world championship in Karapiro .
He was considered as a candidate for participation in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where he was also supposed to perform in the eights, but New Zealand, along with several other Western countries, boycotted these competitions for political reasons.
At the 1981 World Championships in Munich in the eights, Roger managed to qualify only for the consolation final B and was located in the final protocol of the competitions on the seventh line.
In 1982, he won the eights at the world championship in Lucerne .
In 1983, at the World Championships in Duisburg he was again the best among the eights.
He took part in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles , but could not get into the number of winners here, in the finals the eights came to the finish line fourth [2] .
The last time showed any significant result in the international arena in the 1985 season, when in the New Zealand eight he took fourth place in the world championship in Hasevinkel [3] .
Subsequently, he showed himself in the coaching field. He was married to the famous New Zealand athlete Dianne Zorn , a participant in two Olympic Games (in 1984 they became the first New Zealand spouses to perform at the Olympics). Their son Logan also did rowing.
For outstanding sports achievements in 1995, Dave Roger was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame [4] .
Notes
- ↑ David Roger (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee
- ↑ Dave Roger - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- ↑ David Roger - profile on the FISA website
- ↑ Eight 1982 . New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Date of treatment October 5, 2015. Archived January 13, 2015.