Dane Boswell

Dane Boswell
Personal information
Born (1984-05-07) 7 May 1984 (age 40)[1]
Height198 cm (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight96 kg (212 lb)[1]
RelativeDarien Boswell (father)
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  New Zealand
World Under-23 Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Hazewinkel Coxed four
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Eton Coxed four

Dane Boswell (born 7 May 1984) is a New Zealand rower.

Boswell was born in 1984 and grew up in Kerikeri. His father is Darien Boswell, who represented New Zealand in rowing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[2] In 2005, he was the recipient of the Prime Minister's Athlete Scholarship, which enabled him to attend the University of Waikato.[3]

In 2006 Boswell was selected as stroke in the New Zealand coxed four, along with James Dallinger, Paul Gerritsen, Steven Cottle, and cox Daniel Quigley. They won gold at that year's World Rowing U23 Championships in Hazewinkel, Belgium, also setting a new world record time of 6.03 minutes.[4][5] The same team won bronze at the 2006 World Championships in Eton, UK.[6] During 2007, Boswell was a member of the New Zealand eight that competed at the World Rowing Cups in Amsterdam and Lucerne,[7][8] but was not in the boat that went to that year's World Rowing Championships in Munich.[9]

In 2009, Boswell received a two-month ban from the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand for having tested positive for Probenecid, a masking agent. It was accepted that it was an inadvertent mistake, but he was found guilty of not having followed the necessary procedure of advising his doctor that he is an athlete when the drug was prescribed for an injury.[10]

  1. ^ a b c "Dane Boswell". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Under 23's Take Centre Stage". Sail-World Australia. 20 July 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Scholarships to help athletes study and train" (Press release). New Zealand Government. Scoop. 7 September 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  4. ^ "U23 Men's Coxed Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Rowing: Youngsters surge to golden day at worlds". The New Zealand Herald. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2008.
  6. ^ "Men's Coxed Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  7. ^ "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  8. ^ "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  9. ^ "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Rower Dane Boswell banned for two months". Newshub. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2016.