Sam Bosworth
{{Short description|New Zealand coxswain}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|Gold | 2020 Tokyo | Eight}}
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Sam Bosworth (born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealand coxswain. He is an Olympic champion and was the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event in a female crew.
Private life
Bosworth was born on 5 April 1994 and is from Waipara in North Canterbury.{{cite news |title=Sports scholar sets world rowing first |url=http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/News-and-Events/Sports-scholar-sets-world-rowing-first/ |accessdate=8 October 2017 |work=Lincoln University |date=26 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008030941/http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/News-and-Events/Sports-scholar-sets-world-rowing-first/ |archive-date=8 October 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} He received his education at Christ's College in Christchurch, and he took up rowing while at the school during 2009, moving to the sport from cricket. He is enrolled for tertiary study at Lincoln University, studying towards a bachelor of Environmental Management and Planning. In late 2016, he moved to Cambridge to be at the national rowing training centre.{{cite news |last1=Leggat |first1=David |title=Sam Bosworth dipping into fresh rowing territory |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11915975 |accessdate=8 October 2017 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=2 September 2017}}
Rowing career
Bosworth is a member of the Avon Rowing Club. At the 2012 World Rowing Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, he won gold with the junior men's coxed four with Tom Murray, Michael Brake, Cameron Webster, and Thomas Jenkins.{{cite web |title=(JM4+) Junior Men's Coxed Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2012-world-championships/junior-mens-coxed-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}} At the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz, Austria, he won silver with the U23 men's coxed four.{{cite web |title=(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2013-under-23-world-rowing-championships/u23-mens-coxed-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}} Bosworth won two subsequent silver medals at U23 World Championships in the same boat class in 2014 and 2015, both times beaten by the Italian team.{{cite web |title=(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2014-world-rowing-u23-championships/u23-mens-coxed-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}}{{cite web |title=(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2015-world-rowing-under-23-championships/u23-mens-coxed-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}} At the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the U23 men's coxed four finally won gold, beating the Italian team.{{cite web |title=(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2016-world-rowing-under-23-championships/u23-mens-coxed-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}}
In February 2017, the International Rowing Federation removed gender-restrictions from coxswains,{{cite web |title=2017 Extraordinary Congress Minutes |url=https://www.worldrowing.com/mm//Document/General/General/12/88/69/2017ExtraordinaryMinutesENwebv2_Neutral.pdf |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017 |date=17 February 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008030413/https://www.worldrowing.com/mm//Document/General/General/12/88/69/2017ExtraordinaryMinutesENwebv2_Neutral.pdf |archivedate=8 October 2017 |df=dmy-all }} and a month later, Bosworth was assigned the New Zealand women's eight. 2017 was his first year at elite level. The crew won the June 2017 World Rowing Cup II in Poznań, Poland, and Bosworth became the first male cox to win an international women's rowing event.{{cite web |title=(W8+) Women's Eight – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2017-world-rowing-cup-ii/womens-eight/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Olivia |title=History-maker: Sam's the man for Kiwi women's rowing crew |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/94905701/sams-the-man-for-kiwi-womens-crew--canterbury-cox-sam-bosworth-creates-rowing-history |accessdate=7 October 2017 |work=Stuff |date=20 July 2017}} On 2 July 2017, Bosworth's women's eight won the Remenham Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.{{cite web|title=Inside Lines – Sunday 2nd July 2017|url=https://www.hrr.co.uk/inside-lines-sunday-2nd-july-2017|publisher=Henley Royal Regatta|accessdate=8 October 2017}} Bosworth then coxed the New Zealand women's eight at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida. When they surprisingly won their heat, displacing the favourite team from the USA to second place, he became the first male to win a race at a World Championship race with a female crew.{{cite news |last1=Brockman |first1=Jim |title=World Rowing: For Kiwi coxswain, an historic victory |url= http://www.heraldtribune.com/sports/20170926/world-rowing-for-kiwi-coxswain-historic-victory |accessdate=8 October 2017 |work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |date=26 September 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Rounce |first1=Henry |title=New Zealand women's rowing eight out to end one of sports' historic winning streaks |url= http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2017/09/new-zealand-women-s-rowing-eight-out-to-end-one-of-sports-historic-winning-streaks.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171001055147/http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2017/09/new-zealand-women-s-rowing-eight-out-to-end-one-of-sports-historic-winning-streaks.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 1 October 2017 |accessdate=8 October 2017 |work=Newshub |date=27 September 2017}} In the A-final, the New Zealand team came third to win a bronze medal.{{cite web |title=Sam Bosworth |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/42833/results/bosworth-sam |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=8 October 2017 |archive-date=8 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008030258/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/42833/results/bosworth-sam |url-status=dead }} He is the first male to ever cox for a female crew in New Zealand.{{cite web |title=Sam Bosworth |url= https://www.rowingnz.kiwi/Person?Action=Profile&Person_id=19972 |publisher=Rowing New Zealand |accessdate=7 October 2017}}
In August 2021, he coxed the New Zealand men's eight to a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In December 2022, he announced his retirement from rowing and look to start his next stage of life in London.{{cite web | url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132038/sam-bosworth-retires-rowing | title=Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Bosworth retires from rowing | date=30 December 2022 }}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing}}
- {{NZOC profile}}
- {{Olympics.com}}
- {{Olympedia}}
{{Olympic champions – Men's eight}}
{{2020 New Zealand Olympic team}}
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Category:New Zealand male rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
Category:People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch
Category:People from North Canterbury
Category:Sportspeople from Cambridge, New Zealand
Category:Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics