MURRAY Tom

New Zealand

Rowing

Date of Birth: 5 Apr 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Place of birth: BLENHEIM

Birth Country:

New Zealand

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Rowing	Men's Eight NZL New Zealand	1

Schedule

Change

Location	Event	Status
Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Eight Heat 2 #60	Finished
Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Eight Repechage 1 #104	Finished
Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Eight Final A #130	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	8+
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6

World Championships

Year	Location	2-	8+
2019	Linz, AUT	2	-
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	5	-
2017	Sarasota, FL, USA	3	-
2015	Aiguebelette-le-Lac, FRA	-	4

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Pair	2018	Lucerne, SUI	6:32.93
1	Pair	2017	Lucerne, SUI	6:34.50
2	Pair	2019	Poznan, POL	6:39.49
3	Pair	2019	Rotterdam, NED	6:59.69

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Nickname:

Tom (RowingChat YouTube channel, 14 Apr 2018; radionz.co.nz, 04 Mar 2016)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

University of Otago, Dunedin, NZL

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Blenheim Rowing Club [NZL] / Central RPC [NZL]

Coach:

Gary Roberts [national], NZL

Injuries:

In early 2018 he broke multiple toes after being towed behind a boat on an inflatable water toy. He recovered in time to compete at the 2018 World Cup event in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July that year. (rowingnz.kiwi, 20 Jun 2019; sportzhub.com, 04 Apr 2019; tvnz.co.nz, 13 Jun 2018)

Start:

He took up rowing at age 15 at Malborough Boys' College in Blenheim, New Zealand. (rowingnz.kiwi, 06 Sep 2015 )

Reason:

Initially he took up rowing to get fit for the high school rugby season, but gradually rowing became his preferred sport. "Nothing I've ever come across pushes me like rowing. I love the feeling of accomplishing something I didn't know I could do. It takes you across the world and introduces you to people who, I'm pretty sure it's safe to say, you wouldn't have met otherwise." (rowingnz.kiwi, 01 Sep 2018; worldrowing.com, 01 Aug 2015)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (marlboroughweekly.co.nz, 04 Sep 2019)

Training:

He trains up to three sessions per day, six days a week. "We start off pretty early. I hate being rushed, so I get up with plenty of time. Normally the alarm goes at 05:30 in the morning, and I'll get up and take my time having some breakfast. On the bigger days it can be up to three sessions a day down at the lake. We have a weights gym down at the lake, so it might be two water sessions and a weights session a day. That's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - and then on Saturday we have a double session in the morning and get that Saturday afternoon off, so that we can freshen up on the Sunday for a peak performance the following week." (RowingChat YouTube channel, 14 Apr 2018)

Ritual:

"I try to stay away from rituals, the lead-up to one race can be a lot different to another and rituals can get in the way of being adaptable. They are also too close to superstition and I'm not superstitious, because that's bad luck." (worldrowing.com, 01 Aug 2015)

Philosophy:

"Rowing takes you to your breaking point and teaches you to bend rather than snap." (worldrowing.com, 01 Aug 2015)

General Interest

General
BROKEN TOES
In early 2018 he and pairs partner Michael Brake both suffered broken bones within days of each other. Brake broke his wrist after slipping over at his parents' apartment, while Murray broke multiple toes after being towed behind a boat on an inflatable water toy. "I was being towed behind a boat on a [sea] biscuit at a mate's stag party. It was the very first activity, it was so early in the activity that not everybody had arrived. I'd been on the biscuit 20 seconds and we had a big wave and immediately I knew something was wrong with my foot. I turned around and I could tell by the new angles in my toes that I'd done something bad. Initially I thought it was just dislocation and we debated whether or not we could pop it back in ourselves, and I'm very glad we didn't do that in the end because once it was x-rayed, I had three broken and two dislocated toes." (tvnz.co.nz, 13 Jun 2018; RowingChat YouTube channel, 14 Apr 2018)

Milestones

He was the first rower representing New Zealand's Blenheim Rowing Club to win a world title at senior or age group level, when he was part of the men's four boat that won gold at the 2012 U20 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. At the time the club had existed for 128 years without a world champion. (stuff.co.nz, 23 Aug 2012)

Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-murray-21582457

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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