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Joseph Sullivan (born 11 April 1987) is a New Zealand rower. As a student at Queen Charlotte College in Picton, Sullivan competed at the 2003, 2004 and 2005 national secondary school rowing championships (Maadi Cup). He was a member of the crews that won the boys under-18 double sculls for the school three years running, and won the boys under-18 single sculls events in 2004 and 2005. In his home town, he is known as "the pride of Picton". He won back-to-back
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s in the men's
double scull A double scull, also abbreviated as a 2x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") ar ...
s with rowing partner Nathan Cohen at both the
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(at
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, by six hundredths of a second over Germans
Hans Gruhne Hans Gruhne (born 5 August 1988) is a German rower. He won gold as part of the German team in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He finished 6th in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summ ...
and
Stephan Krüger Stephan Krüger (born 29 November 1988, Rostock) is a German rower. He was part of the German quadruple sculls team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with René Bertram, Hans Gruhne and Christian Schreiber. The team finished in 6th. In 2009, he ...
) and
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(in
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). It was the first gold medal win for a New Zealand premier double sculls combination at the world championships. At the
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at
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,
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, Sullivan and rowing partner Nathan Cohen won the
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in the men's
double scull A double scull, also abbreviated as a 2x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") ar ...
event. They broke the Olympic best time in the heats. In the finals they were in last place at the 500 m mark, in fifth place at the 1000 m mark, in fourth at the 1500 m mark, and then sprinted as the line approached to take first for the victory, with a last quarter of 1:33. They won with a time of 6 minutes, 31.67 seconds. They finished ahead of the Italy's
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and
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by 1:13 seconds, and Slovenian 2000 Olympic champions and 2004 silver medalists
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and
Iztok Čop Iztok Čop (born 17 June 1972) is a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medalist. Biography Čop was born in Kranj, SR Slovenia, and started rowing at the age of 13 in Bled, where Slovenia's best rowing club is located ...
came in third. Sullivan and Cohen were awarded a
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for "New Zealand's Favourite Sporting Moment". Sullivan won five consecutive world titles at U23 and
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World Rowing Championships. In the
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, Sullivan was appointed a
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for services to rowing. In June 2014, Sullivan announced he was retiring from rowing in order to pursue a career with the
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as a firefighter based in
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. In 2016, Sullivan joined Emirates
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, as a grinder a (i.e. spinning the handles that produce hydraulic pressure to move the boat's wings and
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s), for the
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in Bermuda.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Joseph 1987 births Living people Rowers from Picton, New Zealand New Zealand male rowers Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Rangiora People educated at Queen Charlotte College World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand Team New Zealand sailors New Zealand male sailors (sport) 2017 America's Cup sailors New Zealand firefighters 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen Rowers from the Canterbury Region