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Birth name | Grant R. F. McAuley | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Auckland, New Zealand | 6 July 1949
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Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Grant R. F. McAuley (born 6 July 1949) is a New Zealand rower.
McAuley was born in 1949 in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] [2] He rowed with the eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal. [3] He represented New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxless four in a team with Bob Murphy, David Lindstrom, and Des Lock, narrowly beaten by the team from the Soviet Union to fourth place. [4] He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 358 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. [5] He competed in the 1978 World Rowing Championships in the double sculls with John White and they came sixth in the final. [6] At the 1979 World Rowing Championships held at Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he won a silver medal with the eight. [7] McAuley won the Bay of Plenty Sportsman of the Year award in 1979. [8]