Simon Dickie
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| Birth name | Simon Charles Dickie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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31 March 1951 Waverley, Taranaki, New Zealand |
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| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wellington Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simon Charles Dickie (born 31 March 1951) is a former New Zealand rowing cox who won three Olympic medals.
Dickie was born in 1951 in Waverley in Taranaki, New Zealand.
For the 1968 Summer Olympics, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve; Dickie was part of this reserve as their cox. 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. Dickie won the Olympic coxed four event along with Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Ross Collinge and Warren Cole; this was New Zealand's first gold medal in rowing.
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Joyce, Tony Hurt, Wybo Veldman, John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Trevor Coker and Gary Robertson to win the gold medal in the eights. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he was again cox for the eight which this time won the bronze medal. His crewmates this time were Tony Hurt, Alec McLean, Ivan Sutherland, Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl and Dave Rodger.
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