Ross Collinge

Ross Collinge
Personal information
Birth name Ross Hounsell Collinge
Born 21 November 1944 (1944-11-21) (age 72)
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Rowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico Coxed four
1972 Munich Coxless four
World Rowing Championships
1975 Nottingham Eight

Ross Hounsell Collinge (born 21 November 1944 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Collinge won the gold medal in the coxed four along with Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox). At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Noel Mills to win the silver medal in the coxless four. He rowed with the coxed eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ross Collinge". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 20 September 2016.


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