Chris White

MNZM

Personal information
Born	Christopher Sherratt White (1960-09-09)9 September 1960 (age 65) Gisborne, New Zealand
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight	94 kg (207 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Representing New Zealand Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Coxed four World Championships 1982 Rotsee Eight 1983 Wedau Eight 1986 Nottingham Coxed four 1995 Tampere Coxed four Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh Coxed four

Christopher Sherratt WhiteMNZM (born 9 September 1960) is a former New Zealandrower and Olympic Bronze medallist at the1988 Summer Olympics inSeoul. He is described as "one of the giants of New Zealand rowing" and with 38 national titles, holds the record for most domestic rowing titles in New Zealand.

White was born on 9 September 1960 inGisborne, New Zealand.^[2]Richard White, anAll Black, was his father. He was a member of the Waikato Rowing Club and in the 1980/81 rowing season, he became national champion in the coxed pairs, pairing withGreg Johnston and Noel Parris as cox.^[3] He first represented New Zealand at the1981 World Rowing Championships inOberschleißheim outside ofMunich, Germany, where he rowed with the eight.^[4] With the New Zealand eight, he won world championships in1982 and1983 atRotsee, Switzerland and atWedau, Germany, respectively.^[4]

White competed at the1984 Olympics inLos Angeles in the eights which finished fourth. At the1988 Olympics, White won Bronze in the coxed four along withGeorge Keys,Greg Johnston,Ian Wright andAndrew Bird (cox). At the1992 Olympics inBarcelona and the1996 Olympics inAtlanta in the coxless four, he finished fourth and thirteenth, respectively.^[4]

In 1986 he won Silver medals in the coxed four at both theCommonwealth Games inEdinburgh theWorld Rowing Championships inNottingham.^[4] At the1995 World Rowing Championships inTampere, Finland, White won a Silver medal in the coxed four, withMurdoch Dryden,Andrew Matheson,Chris McAsey, andMichael Whittaker as cox.^[5] White has won a total of 38 National Rowing titles, easily the most in New Zealand.^[4] He was on the athletes' support staff for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and has been on the New Zealand Olympic Committee’s athletes commission for eight years. He is also the manager of Olympic and World Champion rowersCaroline andGeorgina Evers-Swindell.^[4]

In 1982, the 1982 rowing eight crew was named sportsman of the year.^[6] The 1982 team was inducted into theNew Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.^[7] In the2000 New Year Honours, White was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing.^[8]

• Chris White atWorld Rowing
• Chris White at theNew Zealand Olympic Committee
• Chris White atOlympics.com
• Chris White atOlympedia

• 1960 births
• Living people
• New Zealand male rowers
• Olympic rowers for New Zealand
• Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand
• Olympic medalists in rowing
• Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists in rowing
• Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Sportspeople from Gisborne, New Zealand
• 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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