Tony Popplewell

Tony Popplewell
Personal information
Birth name Anthony George Popplewell
Nationality New Zealand
Born (1941-05-01) 1 May 1941[1]
Rotherham, New Zealand
Height 194 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight 88 kg (194 lb)[1]

Anthony George "Tony" Popplewell ONZM (born 1 May 1941) is a New Zealand rower.

Popplewell was born in 1941 in Rotherham, New Zealand.[1][2] He represented New Zealand at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 196 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.[3] In the 2007 New Year Honours, he was appointed Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for "services to rowing and sports administration".[4]

Popplewell was operations director for the 2010 World Rowing Championships held at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand.[5] Along with Ivan Sutherland, Nathan Twaddle, and John Wylie, Popplewell is on the executive of the New Zealand Rowing Foundation, an organisation aiming to fund junior and under-23 rowers who don't qualify for high performance funding.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tony Popplewell". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Tony Popplewell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Tony Popplewell". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "New Year Honours List 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Kilgallon, Steve (13 February 2011). "'Over-priced' Karapiro tickets a sign of trouble". The Sunday Star-Times. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "New Zealand Rowing Foundation". Rowing New Zealand. Retrieved 19 September 2016.


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