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Full name | Nathan Phillip Cohen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 2 January 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years active | 2000–2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 192 lb (87 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | sculls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University team | Otago University Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Invercargill Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Calvin Ferguson[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | World champion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 30 October 2013 |
Nathan Phillip Cohen MNZM (born 2 January 1986) is a New Zealand rower. He is a two-time world champion, and won a gold medal in the Olympics. In 2006, rowing a single scull, he won a gold medal at the World University Games. In doing so, he became the first New Zealander to win a gold medal at the World University Games in any sport. Cohen and his rowing partner, Joseph Sullivan, won back-to-back gold medals in the men's double sculls at both the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he and his partner won the gold medal in the men's double sculls, after breaking the Olympic best time in the heats. In 2013, Cohen was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to rowing.