Joseph Sullivan (rower)

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Joseph Sullivan
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Double sculls
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Karapiro Double sculls
Gold medal – first place 2011 Bled Double sculls
World Rowing U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Glasgow Single sculls
Gold medal – first place 2008 Munich Single sculls
Gold medal – first place 2009 Račice Double sculls

Joseph Sullivan MNZM (born 11 April 1987 in Rangiora, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rower.

As a student at Queen Charlotte College in Picton, Sullivan competed at the 2003, 2004 and 2005 national secondary school rowing championships (Maadi Cup). He was a member of the crews that won the boys under-18 double sculls for the school three years running, and won the boys under-18 single sculls events in 2004 and 2005.[1][2][3]

He won back-to-back gold medals in the men's double sculls with rowing partner Nathan Cohen at both the 2010 (at Lake Karapiro, by six hundredths of a second over Germans Hans Gruhne and Stephan Krüger) and 2011 World Rowing Championships (in Slovenia).[4][5][6] It was the first gold medal win for a New Zealand premier double sculls combination at the world championships.[5]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics at Eton Dorney, Windsor, Sullivan and rowing partner Nathan Cohen won the gold medal in the men's double sculls.[7] They broke the Olympic best time in the heats.[4] [8]

In the finals they were in last place at the 500 m mark, in fifth place at the 1000 m mark, in fourth at the 1500 m mark, and then sprinted as the line approached to take first for the victory, with a last quarter of 1:33.[8][9][10] They won with a time of 6 minutes, 31.67 seconds.[4] They finished ahead of the Italy's Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti by 1:13 seconds, and Slovenian 2000 Olympic champions and 2004 silver medalists Luka Špik and Iztok Čop came in third.[4][11] Sullivan and Cohen were awarded a Halberg Award for "New Zealand's Favourite Sporting Moment".[12]

Sullivan won five consecutive world titles at U23 and Elite World Rowing Championships and is very good at what he does.

Sullivan was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year's Honours, for his services to rowing.[13]

In June 2014, Sullivan announced he was retiring from rowing in order to pursue a career with the New Zealand Fire Service as a firefighter.[14]

References

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External links

  • Joseph Sullivan at WorldRowing.com from FISALua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).


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