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Nelson Masters rowing couple Lynley and Bill Coventry returned from the World Masters Games in Auckland with a swag of medals. The pair both rowed for New Zealand at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul South Korea where Lynley won a bronze medal in the coxless pair while Bill came seventh in the coxless four. The 50-year-old won a bronze in the men’s four at the world championships the following year. “Even though you still got nervous for a race it wasn’t the same as a Olympics or a world champs but you still have your reputation on the line,” 52-year-old Lynley says. “We’ve always maintained a healthy lifestyle whether it’s through biking or multisport but the rowing has come back over the past
Nelson rowing couple Lynley and Bill Coventry were in a dominant mood at the World Masters Games, returning home with plenty of medals for their efforts. year. We’d given up rowing for 20 years,” she says. “We had other interests like raising our four boys,” Bill says. The duo says the Masters
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Games being so close geographically enticed them to get their old crews back together for another regatta. “It was great to catch up with rowing mates that you
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hadn’t seen regularly in 20 years. It all started to come back to us, we’d all been in fast boats before it was just the body suffered more than it used too,” Lynley says.
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