Rowing Olympics
Rowing is one of the many sports in the Olympics. Rowing is a sport that uses a canoe, with oars to control the canoe/boat with. In the rowing Olympics there are lots of different types of rowing like mens and women's singles, doubles, coxless pairs, and eights. In rowing New Zealand has three golds, two silver, and zero bronze. In total New Zealand has won five medals in the Olympics. The Olympics started in 1894 and the first time New Zealand competed in rowing was in 1900.
The golds that New Zealand have won in 2021 this year for the 2021 tokyo Olympics is Grace Prendergast and Kerri Glower who raced in the women's doubles, men's eight these are just a couple of E.G. New Zealand has entered into are mens and womens singles, mens and womens double, mens and womens coxless, and mens and womens eight.
New Zealander Liza Carrington has entered into all of the women's rowing as she could, which is most of the women rowing games. Soon Lisa Carrington is going to become New Zealand’s best Olympic rower, she is 32 years old, LIsa Carrington has won 3 gold medals for rowing in the Olympics.
The first person to row in the Olympics for New Zealand was Victor Lindberg at the 1900 summer Olympics. Victor Lindbeg was also the first ever New Zealander to win a gold medal in the Olympic for New Zealand and for rowing and he won it in 1900.
Kia ora Olive, I really enjoyed reading about the sport of rowing in the Olympic games. I love the picture you have included of Lisa Carrington - wasn't she just so awesome to watch on the water at the Tokyo games?! You have listed many facts about the athletes who competed and the medals won which tells me that you have spent time researching the topic. Well done.
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