Dudley Storey
{{short description|New Zealand rower}}
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| fullname = Dudley Leonard Storey
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|11|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wairoa, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|03|06|1939|11|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing }}
{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalGold | 1968 Mexico | Coxed four }}
{{MedalSilver | 1972 Munich | Coxless four }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 1970 St. Catharines | Eight }}
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Dudley Leonard Storey {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=85%}} (27 November 1939 – 6 March 2017) was a New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals.
Rowing career
File:Dudley Storey handshake.jpg
Storey was born in 1939 in Wairoa, New Zealand.{{cite web |title=Dudley Storey |date=9 February 2016 |url=http://olympic.org.nz/athletes/dudley-storey/ |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |access-date=5 September 2016}} After having received an invitation to the Henley Royal Regatta, he won the inaugural Prince Philip Challenge Cup regatta in 1963 in Henley-on-Thames. That year, the Henley regatta was regarded as the event that came closest to a world championship.{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=David |title=Rowing – International rowing, 1920s to 1980s |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/rowing/page-4 |publisher=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=5 September 2016 |date=5 September 2013}} Darien Boswell, Peter Masfen and Alistair Dryden made up the other rowers, and Bob Page was the cox.{{cite news |last1=Leggat |first1=David |title=Rowing: Crew toast 50th anniversary of glorious win |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10895045 |access-date=5 September 2016 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=6 July 2013}} The same coxed four team then went to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where they placed a disappointing eighth.{{cite web |title=New Zealand Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1964/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417214300/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1964/ROW/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=5 September 2016}}
For the 1968 Summer Olympics, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve; Storey was part of this reserve. Preparations were held in Christchurch at Kerr's Reach on the Avon River. The reserve rowers were unhappy with the "spare parts" tag and felt that they were good enough to perhaps win a medal if put forward as a coxed four. The manager, Rusty Robertson, commented about them that they were "the funniest looking crew you've ever seen".{{cite news |title=Famed New Zealand Olympic rower Dudley Storey dies |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/90123831/Famed-New-Zealand-Olympic-rower-Dudley-Storey-dies |access-date=6 March 2017 |work=Stuff |date=6 March 2017}} There were stern discussions with the New Zealand selectors. In a training run, the coxed four was leading the eight over the whole race. In the end, the reserve rowers got their way and New Zealand entered both the coxed four and the eight.{{cite web |title=New Zealand Rowing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1968/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417170350/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1968/ROW/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=7 September 2016}} Storey won the Olympic coxed four event along with Dick Joyce, Ross Collinge, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox);{{cite web |title=Rowing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/ROW/mens-coxed-fours.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130302/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/ROW/mens-coxed-fours.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=7 September 2016}} this was New Zealand's first gold medal in rowing. At the time, he was a 27-year-old carpet layer, whose wife was about to give birth to their first child. He was the only member of the crew to have previously rowed outside New Zealand.{{Cite journal|last=White|first=Mike|date=May 2018|title=The greatest race you never heard of: NZ's first gold medal in rowing|url=https://www.noted.co.nz/life/sport/nzs-first-gold-medal-in-rowing/|journal=North & South|volume=386|pages=58–66}}
Storey competed at the 1971 European Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, and came fourth with the coxed four, alongside Noel Mills, Ross Collinge, Raymond Barry, and Peter Lindsay as cox.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1971-european-championships/mens-coxed-four/final/ |title=(M4+) Men's Coxed Four – Final |access-date=6 September 2016 |publisher=International Rowing Federation}} At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Tonks, Collinge and Mills to win the Silver medal in the coxless four.{{cite web |title=Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's Coxless Fours |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ROW/mens-coxless-fours.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132220/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ROW/mens-coxless-fours.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=6 September 2016}}
Later career
Storey was manager of the successful New Zealand rowing teams from 1982 to 1986. He managed the 1982 and 1983 New Zealand eight, the country's rowing teams at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the teams at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.{{cite news |last1=Leggat |first1=David |title=Rowing: Striving for that golden formula |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10397891 |access-date=23 October 2016 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=24 August 2006}} He later coached Baradene College of the Sacred Heart's rowing squad. Also coached at Takapuna Grammar School.
In the 1983 New Year Honours, Storey was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to rowing.{{London Gazette |issue=49214 |date=31 December 1982 |page=48 |supp=3}} Storey's medal-winning 1968 rowing crew was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. The boat that won the 1963 Prince Philip Challenge Cup, bought in England for £300, is on display at the Auckland Rowing Club.
Death
Storey died in Auckland on 6 March 2017, soon after a diagnosis of motor neurone disease.{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11813028 | title=Kiwi Olympic rowing gold medalist Dudley Storey passes away | date=6 March 2017 | work= The New Zealand Herald | access-date=6 March 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing|20556}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190928202516/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/20556/ archive])
- {{Olympics.com|dudley-leonard-storey|Dudley Leonard Storey|org_id=dudley-storey|org_name=Dudley Storey|org_archive=20190928202523}}
- {{NZOC profile|dudley-storey}}
- {{Olympedia|39251}}
{{Olympic champions – Men's coxed four}}
{{1964 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1968 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1972 New Zealand Olympic team}}
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Category:New Zealand male rowers
Category:Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing
Category:Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
Category:Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
Category:New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic coaches for New Zealand