Dudley Storey

Dudley Storey
OBE
Personal information
Full name Dudley Leonard Storey
Born (1939-11-27) 27 November 1939
Wairoa, New Zealand
Sport
Sport Rowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico Coxed four
1972 Munich Coxless four
World Rowing Championships
1970 St. Catharines Eights

Dudley Leonard Storey OBE (born 27 November 1939) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals.

Storey was born in 1939 in Wairoa, New Zealand.[1] After having received an invitation to the Henley Royal Regatta, he won the inaugural Prince Phillip Challenge Cup regatta in 1963 in Henley-on-Thames.[2] That year, the Henley regatta was regarded as the event that came closest to a world championship.[3] Darien Boswell, Peter Masfen and Alistair Dryden made up the other rowers, and Bob Page was the cox.[2]

The same coxed four team then went to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where they placed a disappointing eighth.[2][4] At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Storey won the Gold medal in the coxed four along with Dick Joyce, Ross Collinge, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox).[5] Storey competed at the 1971 European Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, and came fourth with the coxed four, alongside Noel Mills, Ross Collinge, Raymond Barry, and Peter Lindsay as cox.[6] At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Tonks, Collinge and Mills to win the Silver medal in the coxless four.[7]

Storey was New Zealand's national rowing coach from 1982 to 1986. He managed the country's rowing teams at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[8] He now coaches Baradene College of the Sacred Heart's rowing squad.

In the 1983 New Year Honours, Storey was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to rowing.[9] Storey's medal-winning 1968 rowing crew was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. The boat that won the 1963 Prince Phillip Challenge Cup, bought in England for £300, is on display at the Auckland Rowing Club.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dudley Storey". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Leggat, David (6 July 2013). "Rowing: Crew toast 50th anniversary of glorious win". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Green, David (5 September 2013). "Rowing - International rowing, 1920s to 1980s". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "New Zealand Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Rowing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours". Sports Reference. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's Coxless Fours". Sports Reference. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Leggat, David (24 August 2006). "Rowing: Striving for that golden formula". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 49214. p. 48. 31 December 1982. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
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