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Hamish Bond was a World and Olympic Champion rower.  He was a member of the New Zealand gold medal-winning coxless four at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.  The coxless four won Team of the Year at the Halberg Sports Awards in 2007. He was a member of the men’s coxless four which won the B final at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The following year, he and Eric Murray combined to win the coxless pairs at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan.  After this performance Bond and Murray won the Team of the Year award at the 2009 New Zealand Halberg Sports Awards.

Bond and Murray continued to row together in the coxless pairs and competed at and won the World Cup Series and at the 2010 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro, New Zealand 2010.  They continued their undefeated streak, winning gold at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Slovenia.

Bond and Murray have also won the Silver Goblets & Nickalls’ Challenge Cup for Men’s Senior Pairs at the Henley Royal Regatta in 2009, 2010 and 2013.  In the 2013 New Year Honours, Bond was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to rowing.  In 2014 he set a World Indoor Rowing Record for the 60 minute category, completing 18,443m in that time.

At the 2012 London Olympic Games Bond and Murray took six seconds off the world record for the men’s coxless pairs.  The victory capped an undefeated streak that began when Murray and Bond began racing the pairs internationally in 2009.

After London, Bond and Murray decided to continue as a partnership aiming towards the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.  They made changes to their training regime and Noel Donaldson became their coach.  They continued their unbeaten run through the next four years winning the World Championship Coxless Pair in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2014 in Amsterdam they doubled up to win both the coxed and coxless pair events, setting a new World Best Time in the coxed pairs of 6:33.26.

In Rio, Bond and Murray won their second consecutive Olympic gold medal, dominating the field and completing their 8-year unbeaten run together.

In 2018 the International Rowing Federation awarded Bond and Murray the Thomas Keller Medal for their outstanding international rowing career.  It is the sport’s highest honor and is awarded within five years of the athlete’s retirement, acknowledging an exceptional rowing career and exemplary sportsmanship.

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