Hamish Bond
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Bond in 2010
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| Full name | Hamish Byron Bond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 February 1986 Dunedin, New Zealand |
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| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | North End Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Hamish Byron Bond MNZM (born 13 February 1986) is a New Zealand rower and Olympic gold medallist at the 2012 London Olympic Games and at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. He has won six consecutive World Rowing Championships gold medals and has set two world best times.
Bond was born in Dunedin. He was a member of the gold medal-winning coxless fours at the 2007 World Rowing Championships. He was a member of the men's coxless four which won the B final at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The following year, he and Eric Murray won the coxless pairs at the 2009 World Rowing Championships. Bond and Murray together won the team of the year award at the 2009 New Zealand Halberg sports awards.
Bond and Murray continued to row together in the coxless pairs and competed at the World Cup Series and at the 2010 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro, New Zealand 2010. They won all 4 of these international races. They won their 2nd world title together in front of a passionate home crowd. Bond describes racing in front of a home crowd as a "once in a lifetime experience". Bond and Murray continued their undefeated streak, winning gold at the 2011 World Rowing Championships. Bond and Murray had a long running rivalry with the British pair of Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge. The British pair have won silver in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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