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'Robert ("Rob") Norman Waddell', ONZM, (born January 7, 1975 in Te Kuiti) is a New Zealand rower, yachtsman and rugby player. In 1998, he married fellow rower Sonia Scown.
Waddell won the single scull at the rowing World Championships in 1998 and 1999, and the gold medal in the Single Sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics. During his World Championship period, Waddell had several closely contested races with Xeno Müller, the 1996 Summer Olympics champion. In the years leading up to the Olympics, Müller beat Waddell in 3 out of the 7 races they faced each other. At the Olympics, Waddell and Müller dramatically traded the lead over the last half of the course before Waddell finally pulled away to win the gold medal.
Waddell has one of the highest VO₂ max intake levels of any athlete ever tested. He holds the second fastest 2 km indoor rowing ergo time in the world.
Waddell started rowing at King's College, Auckland. He later joined Team New Zealand as a grinder for the 2003 America's Cup defence and continued in the role as a grinder with Emirates Team New Zealand for the 2007 America's Cup challenge.

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Achievements

Olympic Games - Rowing

World Championships - Rowing

America's Cup - Sailing

External links

Achievements

★ Olympic Medals: 1 Gold

★ World Championship Medals: 2 Gold

Olympic Games - Rowing

★ 2000 - Gold, Single Sculls

★ 1996 - 7th, Single Sculls

World Championships - Rowing

★ 1999 - Gold, Single Sculls

★ 1998 - Gold, Single Sculls

★ 1997 - 8th, Single Sculls

★ 1995 - 10th, Straight Four (4-)

★ 1994 - 5th, Pair With (2+)

★ 1994 - 13th, Straight Pair (2-)

America's Cup - Sailing

★ 2003 - Grinder, Team New Zealand. Unsuccessful defender of the America's Cup 2003

★ 2007 - Grinder, Emirates Team New Zealand. Winner Louis Vuitton Cup 2007 but unsuccessful challenger for the America's Cup 2007

External links

★ FISA profile

★ Short biography

★ Video of 2000 Olympic race