WILLIAMSON Daniel

New Zealand

Rowing

Date of Birth: 30 Mar 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Male

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:

World Championships Under 23

Year	Location	4-
2018	Poznan, POL	3

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	4-
2017	Trakai, LTU	2

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

Nickname:

Dan (nzherald.co.nz, 16 May 2021; Instagram profile, 16 May 2021 )

Hobbies:

Fishing. (yalebulldogs.com, 19 Oct 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Auckland Rowing Club [NZL] / Yale University [USA]

Coach:

Steve Gladstone [Yale], USA; Tony O'Connor [national], IRL

Injuries:

In 2017, he suffered a wrist injury shortly before the world junior championships in August that year, which briefly left him unable to train. He recovered in time to compete at the event. (givealittle.co.nz, 22 Jul 2017)

Start:

He began rowing at Counties Manukau Rowing Club and Howick College in New Zealand in 2014. (rowingnz.kiwi, 20 Feb 2021)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (yaledailynews.com, 12 Mar 2021)

Hero:

New Zealand rower Hamish Bond. (yaledailynews.com, 12 Mar 2021)

General Interest

General
STUDY BREAK
In 2018 he began studying at Yale University in New Haven, CT, United States of America. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic he returned to New Zealand in 2020 and was invited to train with the senior national team. In the 2020/21 academic year, he chose to take a break from his studies to train for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "You don't have time for anything else [other than training], and if you commit to it you're pretty much expected to be available whenever. And to get through the volume and the intensity that these guys lay down, which is seriously impressive, it took me many, many months for my body to actually adapt and be able to handle the load here." (rowingnz.kiwi, 20 Feb 2021; yaledailynews.com, 12 Mar 2021; yalebulldogs.com, 19 Oct 2019)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/dan__williamson

Legend

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

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