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Birth name | Patrick Edward Peoples |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Born | [1] Greymouth, New Zealand | 21 February 1969
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) [1] |
Patrick Edward Peoples (born 21 February 1969) is a New Zealand rower.
Peoples was born in 1969 in Greymouth, New Zealand. [1] [2] He represented New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 658 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. [3]
Peoples has a civil engineering degree from the University of Canterbury. He worked for Fulton Hogan, first in Christchurch and then in the Waikato. He is self-employed and owns Schick Group of Companies that includes Schick Civil Construction and has built up an organization with over 400 staff. [4]
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