Storm Uru

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| name = Storm Uru

| image = Storm Uru 2007 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Uru in 2007

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|02|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Invercargill, New Zealand

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| relatives = Jade Uru (brother)
Tui Uru (great-aunt)
Henare Uru (great-grandfather)

| height = 1.90 m

| weight = {{convert|74|kg|lb|abbr=on}} (2010)

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110208034120/http://stormuru.com/ www.stormuru.com]

| country = New Zealand

| sport = Rowing

| event = Lightweight double sculls

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Storm William Uru (born 14 February 1985) is a New Zealand rower. He is from Ngāi Tahu tribe.

Early life

Uru was born on 14 February 1985 in Invercargill.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ur/storm-uru-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418052319/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ur/storm-uru-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/storm-uru |title=Stom Uru |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901160851/https://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/storm-uru/ |archive-date=1 September 2023}} His younger brother, Jade Uru, is also a rower.{{cite web |title=Jade Uru |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/31694/uru-jade |publisher=International Rowing Federation |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220201116/https://worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/31694/uru-jade |archivedate=20 February 2020}} The broadcaster Tui Uru (1926–2013) was their great-aunt. Tui Uru's father, the Reform Party MP Henare Uru, was a great-grandfather to the rowers.{{cite news | title=Warm, professional and always a lady | date=18 May 2013 | work=Otago Daily Times | page=36 | first=Nigel | last=Benson}}

Uru studied at Massey University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in finance in 2009 and a Master of Management in international business in 2012.{{cite web |url=https://smsportal.massey.ac.nz/sitsvision/wrd/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_enq&code1=MU_GRAD_SEARCH |title=Graduate search |publisher=Massey University |accessdate=22 January 2024}}

Rowing career

Uru competed for New Zealand in Beijing at the 2008 Olympics. With Peter Taylor he finished 7th in the Men's lightweight double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics.{{cite news|title=Men's Lightweight Double Sculls – Official Results : Rowing |url=http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/results.asp?id=rom_122100&sport=ROW |work=The New York Times |access-date=5 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714220634/http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/results.asp?id=rom_122100&sport=ROW |archive-date=14 July 2011 }}

File:LM2x medallists (5178744656).jpg at Lake Karapiro]]

At the 2009 World Rowing Championships, Uru and Taylor won the gold medal in the lightweight double sculls,{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10594193 |title=Rowing: Kiwis claim two more gold medals |last=Bartlett |first=Tom |date=30 August 2009 |work=The New Zealand Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122110205/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10594193 |archive-date=22 January 2012 |url-status=dead }} and took the bronze medal at the following year's World Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/rowing/0513155-british-crews-strike-double-gold-world-rowing |title=British crews strike double gold at World Rowing |date=5 November 2010 |work=More Than the Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106181354/http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/rowing/0513155-british-crews-strike-double-gold-world-rowing |archive-date=6 November 2010 |url-status=dead }}

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Uru and Taylor won the bronze medal in the lightweight double sculls.{{cite web | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10824741 | title=Uru and Taylor: We'll cherish the medal' | publisher=www.nzherald.co.nz | date=5 August 2012 | access-date=11 August 2012}}

Uru rowed at Bow for the winning Oxford crew in the 2014 Boat Race.

After rowing

In 2013, Uru was awarded a Woolf Fisher Scholarship which allowed for his studies at the University of Oxford. He now works for fund management firm Liontrust Asset Management.{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/features/130221425/storm-uru-the-olympian-now-a-london-investment-industry-leader |title=Storm Uru: the Olympian now a London investment industry leader |first=Michael |last=Fallow |work=The Southland Times |publisher=Stuff |date=22 October 2022 |accessdate=22 January 2024}}

References

External links

{{World Rowing|23095}}
{{NZOC profile}}
{{Olympics.com}}
{{Olympedia}}

Category:1985 births

Category:Living people

Category:Sportspeople from Invercargill

Category:Ngāi Tahu people

Category:Olympic rowers for New Zealand

Category:Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand

Category:Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Category:New Zealand Māori sportspeople

Category:Olympic medalists in rowing

Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Category:Oxford University Boat Club rowers

Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand

Category:Alumni of Saïd Business School