Sam Bosworth (born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealand

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. He is an Olympic champion and was the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event in a female crew.

Private life

Bosworth was born on 5 April 1994 and is from

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in North

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. He received his education at Christ's College in

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, and he took up rowing while at the school during 2009, moving to the sport from cricket. He is enrolled for tertiary study at Lincoln University, studying towards a bachelor of Environmental Management and Planning. In late 2016, he moved to

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to be at the national rowing training centre.

Rowing career

Bosworth is a member of the Avon Rowing Club. At the 2012

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, Bulgaria, he won gold with the junior men's coxed four with Tom Murray,

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, Cameron Webster, and Thomas Jenkins. At the

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, Austria, he won silver with the U23 men's coxed four. Bosworth won two subsequent silver medals at U23 World Championships in the same boat class in 2014 and 2015, both times beaten by the Italian team. At the

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, Netherlands, the U23 men's coxed four finally won gold, beating the Italian team. In February 2017, the

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removed gender-restrictions from coxswains, and a month later, Bosworth was assigned the New Zealand women's eight. 2017 was his first year at elite level. The crew won the June 2017

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II in

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, Poland, and Bosworth became the first male cox to win an international women's rowing event. On 2 July 2017, Bosworth's women's eight won the Remenham Challenge Cup at the

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. Bosworth then coxed the New Zealand women's

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at the

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. When they surprisingly won their heat, displacing the favourite team from the USA to second place, he became the first male to win a race at a World Championship race with a female crew. In the A-final, the New Zealand team came third to win a bronze medal. He is the first male to ever cox for a female crew in New Zealand. In August 2021, he coxed the New Zealand men's eight to a gold medal at the

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosworth, Sam 1994 births Living people New Zealand male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch Coxswains (rowing) People from North Canterbury Sportspeople from Cambridge, New Zealand Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics