Joe Schneider
{{Short description|New Zealand rower}}
{{distinguish|Josef Schneider (rower)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2015}}
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| fullname = Joseph Conrad Schneider
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| occupation = Cabinet maker
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| country = New Zealand
| sport = Rowing
| club = Aramoho Rowing Club
| coach = William Webb
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{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1950 Auckland| Double sculls}}
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Joseph Conrad Schneider (11 September 1926 – 15 March 2013) was a New Zealand rower.
Biography
Born on 11 September 1926, Schneider became a cabinet maker.{{cite web |url= http://wdc.whanganui.govt.nz/online/cemetery/view.aspx?id=S3354 |title=Cemetery view |publisher=Whanganui District Council |access-date=26 January 2019}}
Both Schneider and Des Simonson were members of the Aramoho Rowing Club in Whanganui, where they were coached by the former world professional single scull champion, William Webb. Schneider was twice New Zealand champion in single sculls, first at the 1948 New Zealand Rowing Championships in Port Chalmers and then the 1950 championships in Wanganui. With Simonson, he won several national championships in double sculls.{{cite news |title=Aramoho lost fours but captured eights title at N.Z. championship regatta |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19500220.2.71 |access-date=5 February 2023 |work=Wanganui Chronicle |date=20 February 1950 |page=6}}
At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, Schneider (stroke) and Simonson (bow) won the silver medal in the men's double sculls.{{cite news | url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19491212.2.107.4 | title=Champion crews selected for rowing events | date=12 December 1949 | work=Gisborne Herald | access-date=26 January 2019 | page=7}}{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/team/4115 |title=Rowing double scull – men Auckland 1950 |year=2018 |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=26 January 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420220755/https://thecgf.com/results/team/4115 |url-status=dead }} They finished with a time of 7:32, 10 seconds behind the winning Australian crew.{{cite journal |title=Empire Games 1950 souvenir issue |journal=New Zealand Sportsman |volume=4 |issue=8 |date=8 March 1950 |page=47}}
Schneider died in Whanganui on 15 March 2013, and his ashes were buried in Aramoho Cemetery.
References
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{{1950 New Zealand British Empire Games team}}
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Category:New Zealand male rowers
Category:Rowers at the 1950 British Empire Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing
Category:Burials at Aramoho Cemetery
Category:Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games
Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
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