Ross Collinge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ross Collinge

New Zealand rower

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1944

Place of Birth: Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Profession: rower

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Ross Collinge

  • Ross Hounsell Collinge (born 21 November 1944) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals. Collinge was born in 1944 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
  • He trained as a chemist at Petone Technical College.
  • In rowing, he attracted attention due to his strong performance at the 1967 New Zealand championships, where he rowed for the Hutt Valley team; Dick Joyce was one of his team members.
  • For the 1968 Summer Olympics, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve; Collinge was part of this reserve.
  • Preparations were held in Christchurch at Kerr's Reach on the Avon River.
  • The reserve rowers were unhappy with the "spare parts" tag and felt that they were good enough to perhaps win a medal if put forward as a coxed four.
  • The manager, Rusty Robertson, commented about them that they were "the funniest looking crew you've ever seen".
  • There were stern discussions with the New Zealand selectors.
  • In a training run, the coxed four was leading the eight over the whole race.
  • In the end, the reserve rowers got their way and New Zealand entered both the coxed four and the coxed eight.
  • Collinge won the Olympic coxed four event along with Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox); this was New Zealand's first gold medal in rowing.
  • At the time, Collinge had newly qualified as a pharmacist, and recently married.
  • The crew's winning boat was sold to a rowing club to recoup costs, and ended in splinters after a road crash.
  • At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Collinge 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.He is married to Valerie Collinge with whom he had two children.
  • Since the 1980s, they have been living in a house adjacent to the house of the Indian High Commissioner in Lower Hutt.

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