George Keys
New Zealand rower
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| Born | (1959-12-12) 12 December 1959 (age 64) Christchurch, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Keys (born 12 December 1959) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Keys was born in 1959 in the Christchurch suburb of Burwood. He was a member of the Avon Rowing Club.[1] At the 1982 World Rowing Championships at Rotsee, Switzerland, he won a gold medal with the New Zealand eight in seat four.[2] At the 1983 World Rowing Championships at Wedau in Duisburg, Germany, he won a gold medal with the New Zealand eight in seat seven.[3] At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Keys competed in the eights which finished fourth.[4] At the 1988 Olympics, he won Bronze in the coxed four along with Ian Wright, Greg Johnston, Chris White and Andrew Bird (cox).[5]
In 1982, the 1982 rowing eight crew was named sportsman of the year.[6] The 1982 team was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[7]
References
- ^ "George Keys". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Men's Eight – Final". FISA. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Men's Eight – Final". FISA. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Men's Eight – Final". FISA. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Men's Coxed Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "1980's [sic]". Halberg Awards. Retrieved 5 October 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Eight, 1982". New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
External links
- George Keys at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "George Keys". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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| Preceded by | New Zealand Sportsman of the Year 1982 With: Tony Brook, Les O'Connell, Dave Rodger, Mike Stanley, Andrew Stevenson, Chris White, Roger White-Parsons, Andy Hay | Succeeded by Chris Lewis |
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World champions – Men's eight
- 1962:
(Meyer, Plagemann, Aeffke, Behrens, Wallbrecht, von Groddeck, Ingo Kliefoth, Bernd Kruse, cox Ahrens) - 1966: (Meyer, Schreyer, Schwan, Luhn, Hertel, Henning, Ulbricht, Kuhn, cox Niehusen)
- 1970:
(Borchmann, Jobst, Zander, Gust, Martens, Ahrendt, Foppke, Puls, cox Zahn) - 1974:
(Shealy, Stevenson, Cashin, Norelius, Everett, Vespoli, Mickelson, Brown, cox Weinberg) - 1975: (Arndt, Döhn, Wendisch, Ulrich, Klatt, Kostulski, Karnatz, Prudöhl, cox Ludwig)
- 1977: (Sredzki, Lindner, Gottschalt, Kons, Lück, Frieberg, Karnatz, Gunkel, cox Jahncke)
- 1978: (Schumann, Karnatz, Sredzki, Ebert, Ulrich, Jährling, Dühring, Höing, cox Kaiser)
- 1979: (Schiller, Friedrich, Wenzel, Ulrich, Höing, Karnatz, Krauß, Rodewald, cox Ludwig)
- 1981:
(Gudauskas, Solomakhin, Krilov, Diduk, Narushaitis, Narmontas, Pinskus, Maystrenka, cox Nizhegorodov) - 1982:
(O'Connell, Stanley, Stevenson, Keys, White-Parsons, White, Brook, Rodger, cox Hay) - 1983: (Stanley, Stevenson, Rodger, White-Parsons, White, Mabbott, Keys, Atherfold, cox Hay)
- 1985: (Komarov, Diduk, Pinskus, But, Omelyanovich, Hurkovskiy, Voloshin, Vasilyev, cox Dmytrenko)
- 1986:
(Galloway, Batten, Cooper, McKay, Doyle, Tomkins, Popa, Evans, cox Caterson) - 1987: (Teti, Smith, Patton, Still, Nordell, McLaughlin, Burden, Pescatore, cox Bauer)
- 1989: (Puttlitz, Keßlau, Steffes-Mies, Balster, Dietrich, Mauerwerk, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
- 1990: (Baar, Balster, Dietrich, Korte, Richter, Steffes-Mies, Ungemach, Weyrauch, cox Klein)
- 1991: (Steffes-Mies, Balster, Fischer, Streppelhoff, Hecht, Klapheck, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
- 1993: (Baar, Hoeltzenbein, Lütkefels, Richter, Scholz, Steffes-Mies, Streppelhoff, von Ettingshausen, cox Thiede)
- 1994: (Brown, Hall, Honebein, Kaehler, Klepacki, Koven, McKibbon, Smith, cox Segaloff)
- 1995: (Baar, Forster, Kirchhoff, Landvoigt, Lerche, Richter, Sator, Weber, cox Thiede)
- 1997: (Ahrens, Bea, Henry, Kaehler, Miller, Richter, Wherley, Cummins, cox Cipollone)
- 1998: (Ahrens, Collins, Kaehler, Klepacki, Miller, Volpenhein, Welsh, Wherley, cox Cipollone)
- 1999: (Volpenhein, Kaehler, Collins, Welsh, Wherley, Klepacki, Miller, Ahrens, cox Cipollone)
- 2001:
(Măstăcan, Corbeanu, Nemțoc, Florariu, Cornea, Bănică, Pîrvan, Măstăcan, cox Gheorghe) - 2002:
(Swick, Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Stankevicius, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price) - 2003: (Stankevicius, Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Calder, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price)
- 2005: (Daniels, Deakin, Coppola, Beery, Inman, Volpenhein, Hoopman, McElhenney, cox Blomquist)
- 2006: (Dießner, Schulte, Koltzk, Stüer, Tebrügge, Siemes, Engelmann, Heidicker, cox Thiede)
- 2007: (Light, Rutledge, Byrnes, Wetzel, Howard, Seiterle, Kreek, Hamilton, cox Price)
- 2009: (Käufer, Hauffe, Mennigen, Wilke, Schmidt, Adamski, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
- 2010: (Hauffe, Reinelt, Wilke, Mennigen, Schmidt, Müller, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
- 2011: (Hauffe, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Müller, Mennigen, Wilke, cox Sauer)
- 2013:
(Ritchie, Ransley, Gregory, Reed, Sbihi, Triggs Hodge, Nash, Satch, cox Hill) - 2014: (Reilly-O'Donnell, Tarrant, Satch, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Ransley, Louloudis, cox Hill)
- 2015: (Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed, Bennett, Sbihi, Gregory, Nash, Satch, cox Hill)
- 2017: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
- 2018: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
- 2019: (Weißenfeld, Follert, Reinhardt, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
- 2022: (Gibbs, Bolding, Bewicke-Copley, Carnegie, Elwes, Digby, Rudkin, Ford, cox Brightmore)
- 2023: (Dawson, Bolding, Gibbs, Carnegie, Elwes, Digby, Rudkin, Ford, cox Brightmore)
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