Paul Colin Rowe is a New Zealand-born Australian former

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of the 1970s and 1980s. Born in New Zealand, Rowe won national titles in his native country for butterfly and freestyle. He represented New Zealand at the

1978 Commonwealth Games The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, Quebec. They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest at New Zealand's sporting contacts with a ...

in Edmonton, coming fourth in the 100 metre butterfly. Rowe came to Australia in 1979 for training in the lead up to the

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, where he had been due to swim for the New Zealand delegation. New Zealand ended up boycotting the games and in 1981 he became a naturalised Australian. At the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, he was a member of the Australian gold medal-winning freestyle relay team, as well as a silver medalist in the 200 metre butterfly. In 1986, Rowe retired from competitive swimming and made a switch to

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. Rowe is a cousin of swimmer Mark Treffers and uncle of swimmer Ben Treffers.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand male freestyle swimmers Australian male freestyle swimmers Australian male butterfly swimmers New Zealand emigrants to Australia Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand Swimmers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub