Conrad Robertson

Personal information
Birth name	Conrad Christian Robertson
Born	(1957-12-27)27 December 1957 (age 67)[1] Devonport, New Zealand
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	91 kg (201 lb)[1]
Relative	Ben Lucas (brother-in-law)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	North Shore Rowing Club
Medal record Men'srowing Representing New Zealand Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Coxless four World Championships 1983 Duisburg Coxed four 1979 Bled Eight

Conrad Christian Robertson (born 27 December 1957) is a former New Zealandrower who won an Olympic Gold medal at the1984 Summer Olympics inLos Angeles.

Robertson was born in 1957 inDevonport.^[1] His father is the boat builder Chris Robertson, who established a boat-building business on theNorth Shore in 1960.^[2] Conrad Robertson married Sarah Lucas, the sister of the wheelchair racerBen Lucas. The Robertsons have three children.^[3]

Robertson was a member of theNorth Shore Rowing Club.^[3] He won the first of his six Premier Redcoat National Rowing titles in the coxless pair with Mike Stanley in 1979. Perhaps his most impressive victory was three years later when he won the New Zealand nation championship in the 1982 men's single sculls title by defeating the five time national champion John Alexander from Whakatane as a Premier sculler at Lake Waihola. The following year in 1983 at Lake Horowhenia he won the historic and famed 'Boss Rooster' trophy in the coxed four with Mike Stanley, Rogar White-Parsons and Barrie Mabbott, and coxswain Andrew Hay. Later he was the three time consecutive national champion in the double sculls with Eric Verdonk in 1987, 1988, and 1989.^[3]

On an international level, his first competition was at the1978 World Rowing Championships atLake Karapiro, where he rowed with David Clayton-Greene (bow) in the coxed pair; they came eighth overall.^[4] At the1979 World Rowing Championships inBled, Yugoslavia, he won a silver medal with the New Zealand eight.^[5] Robertson was selected to compete at the1980 Summer Olympics inMoscow with the New Zealand eight but did not compete due to theOlympics boycott.^[3]

At the1981 World Rowing Championships inMunich, he came seventh with the New Zealand eight.^[6] At the1983 World Rowing Championships inDuisburg, Germany, he stroked the gold medal winning coxed four withGreg Johnston (3 seat),Keith Trask (2 seat),Les O'Connell (bow), andBrett Hollister (cox).^[7] Along with Les O'Connell,Shane O’Brien and Keith Trask he won gold in thecoxless four at the1984 Summer Olympics atLake Casitas in California.^[8] At the1985 World Rowing Championships atHazewinkel, Belgium, he came twelfth in the quad sculls.^[9]

Since the mid-1990s, Robertson has been a selector forRowing New Zealand.^[10]

His father bought new premises for the boat-building business inWarkworth in 1981. Soon afterwards, Chris Robertson retired, and brothers Martin and Conrad Robertson took over the business. At a later point, Conrad Robertson bought out his brother and has since then been the sole owner of the business, which is now known as Robertson Boats.^[2] Robertsons has built the Kawau Kat fleet.^[11]

• 1957 births
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• New Zealand male rowers
• Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing
• Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
• Rowers from Auckland
• People educated at Takapuna Grammar School
• 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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