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Caroline Evers-Swindell ONZM and Georgina Evers-Swindell ONZM
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The Evers-Swindell sisters were Olympic champion rowers.

The identical twin sisters competed in the double sculls.  In November 2005 they were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA), and in 2016 they became the first New Zealanders to be awarded the federation’s highest award, the Thomas Keller Medal.

The twins narrowly missed the qualification for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; in the crucial race in Lucerne where they had to come second, they came third.  In 2001, they won silver at the World Championships in both the double and quadruple sculls.  Then they won gold at both the 2002 and 2003 World Rowing Championships in the double sculls.  They won the 2004 Olympic gold medal.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the pair won gold medals in the women’s double sculls.  This was the first time in history that the women’s double scull title had successfully been defended.  They announced their retirement from rowing in October 2008.

In December 2008 they won the Lonsdale Cup, which is awarded by the New Zealand Olympic Committee to the athlete(s) who make(s) the most outstanding contribution to an Olympic sport.  They previously won the cup in 2003.

 

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