Tony Popplewell
New Zealand rower (born 1941)
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Anthony George Popplewell ONZM (born 1 May 1941) is a New Zealand rower.
Popplewell was born in 1941 in Rotherham, New Zealand.[1][2] He represented New Zealand at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 196 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.[3] In the 2007 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing and sports administration.[4]
Popplewell was operations director for the 2010 World Rowing Championships held at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand.[5] Along with Ivan Sutherland, Nathan Twaddle, and John Wylie, Popplewell is on the executive of the New Zealand Rowing Foundation, an organisation aiming to fund junior and under-23 rowers who don't qualify for high performance funding.[6]
