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Nathan Flannery (born 22 October 1992) is a New Zealand rower who started with the sport in 2006. He qualified in 2016 to row in the New Zealand's men's quadruple scull. At the Olympic qualifying regatta in
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, Switzerland, in May 2016—the last chance to qualify for the 2016 Olympics—they came third behind teams from Russia and Canada, and thus did not qualify. After a positive doping test returned by Russian crew member
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, the Russian team was disqualified by the world rowing federation and the New Zealand team was assigned an Olympic quota spot. For the competition in Rio, Flannery replaced
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in the bow. The other two team mates are
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and
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1992 births Living people New Zealand male rowers Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for New Zealand 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-rowing-bio-stub