Alan Cotter (rowing)

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Alan Cotter
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Born (1956-11-24) 24 November 1956 (age 65)
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Alan Cotter (born 24 November 1956) is a retired New Zealand rowing coxswain. He was the High Performance Director for Rowing New Zealand from 2008 to 2018.

Cotter was born in 1956 in Ngāruawāhia. [1] [2] He won medals with the men's eight at the 1978 (bronze) and 1979 World Rowing Championships (silver). [2] He was selected as cox for the men's eight to compete at the 1980 Moscow Olympics but did not compete due to the Olympics boycott. [3]

Cotter later worked as a rowing coach. This included coaching the men's coxed four who won silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. [3] In December 2008, he succeeded Andrew Matheson as High Performance Director for Rowing New Zealand; Matheson had not returned to New Zealand from the 2008 Summer Olympics after receiving an offer from Rowing Australia. [4] He faced funding pressure from High Performance Sport New Zealand after missing the target of five rowing medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where only three medals were won. [5] He resigned from Rowing New Zealand in August 2018 over allegations of bullying. [6]

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References

  1. "Alan Cotter". New Zealand Olympic Committee . Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Alan Cotter". International Rowing Federation . Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 "2015 Performance Summit". High Performance Sport New Zealand. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  4. "Rowing: Cotter joins Rowing NZ". The New Zealand Herald. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  5. Anderson, Ian (14 August 2016). "'Only' three Olympic medals puts funding under pressure for Rowing New Zealand". Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  6. "Rowing NZ high performance manager Alan Cotter to resign amid bullying claims". The New Zealand Herald . 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.