Tony Popplewell

Tony Popplewell
ONZM
Personal information
Birth nameAnthony George Popplewell
NationalityNew Zealand
Born (1941-05-01) 1 May 1941 (age 83)[1]
Rotherham, New Zealand
Height194 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight88 kg (194 lb)[1]

Anthony George Popplewell ONZM (born 1 May 1941) is a New Zealand rower.

Popplewell was born in 1941 in Rotherham, New Zealand.[1][2] He represented New Zealand at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 196 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.[3] In the 2007 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing and sports administration.[4]

Popplewell was operations director for the 2010 World Rowing Championships held at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand.[5] Along with Ivan Sutherland, Nathan Twaddle, and John Wylie, Popplewell is on the executive of the New Zealand Rowing Foundation, an organisation aiming to fund junior and under-23 rowers who don't qualify for high performance funding.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d "Tony Popplewell". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tony Popplewell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Tony Popplewell". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  4. ^ "New Year honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. ^ Kilgallon, Steve (13 February 2011). "'Over-priced' Karapiro tickets a sign of trouble". The Sunday Star-Times. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ^ "New Zealand Rowing Foundation". Rowing New Zealand. Retrieved 19 September 2016.