Grant Bramwell

Grant Bramwell

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	K-4 1000 m
World Championships
	1985 Mechelen	K-1 10000 m

Grant Bramwell (born 28 January 1961 in Gisborne, New Zealand) is a sprint canoeist who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m at Los Angeles in 1984 with Alan Thompson, Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald. ^[1] Bramwell also won a K-1 10000 m bronze at the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mechelen.

Bramwell was involved in a variety of sports when he was younger including: swimming (representing Poverty Bay while at school), multisport (winning the New Zealand Ironman in 1985 and 1989 and surf live-saving). ^[2] He was educated at Lytton High School. ^[2] After retiring from top-level canoeing Bramwell was a selector for New Zealand canoeing in the 1990s.

References

1. Soutar, Monty. "East Coast region". Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
2. "Grant Bramwell". Whiti Ora Tairāwhiti. Retrieved 17 July 2025.

• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk .
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk .
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Grant Bramwell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012.