Caleb Shepherd
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Born | (1993-06-29) 29 June 1993 (age 30) Huntly, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Coxed pair, Eight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Waikato | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caleb Shepherd (born 29 June 1993) is a New Zealand rowing cox. He holds the world best time in the men's coxed pair (2014) and represented at the Rio Olympics in the New Zealand eight. He coxed the New Zealand women's eight to their 2019 World Championship title and has been twice a world champion.
Private life
Shepherd was born in 1993[1] and is from Huntly. He received his secondary education at Hamilton Boys' High School as a boarder where he started coxing in 2006.[2] Shepherd completed a master's degree at the University of Waikato in 2020, with a thesis on depression in autobiographical sports writing.[3][4] Shepherd wants to become a sports journalist.[2]
Of Māori descent, Shepherd affiliates to the Ngāti Porou iwi.[5]
Rowing
At the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships at Dorney Lake, Dorney, England, Shepherd won silver with the junior men's coxed four.[6] At the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships at Trakai in Lithuania, Shepherd won bronze with the U23 men's coxed four.[7] At the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships at Linz-Ottensheim in Austria, he won gold with the men's eight.[8] A year later at the July 2014 World Rowing U23 Championships in Varese, Italy, he won another gold with the same boat.[9] On 29 August 2014, Shepherd was the cox for Hamish Bond and Eric Murray when they set the world best time in the men's coxed pair at the 2014 World Rowing Championships at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the final race, thus winning gold.[10] As of 2021 that time still stood as the world's best. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics.[11] This is the first time that a New Zealand eight qualified for the Olympics since 1984, despite the famous performance of past eights including the 1982 New Zealand eight.[12] He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in Rio de Janeiro.[13]
References
- ^ a b c "Caleb Shepherd". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ a b Wallace, Caitlin; Goile, Aaron (23 March 2016). "North Waikato rowers selected to compete in Rio Olympics". Waikato Times. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ Shepherd, Caleb (2020). Depression in autobiographical sports writing: A backstage pass into the dark locker room (Masters thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/13894.
- ^ "Caleb Shepherd : RowingNZ". rowingnz.kiwi. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ "43 Māori athletes to head to Rio Olympics". Te Karere. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "(JM4+) Junior Men's Coxed Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "(BM4+) U23 Men's Coxed Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "(BM8+) U23 Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "(BM8+) U23 Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ Anderson, Ian (7 September 2015). "New Zealand eights surge into Olympic medal contention at world champs". Stuff. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ Anderson, Ian (27 August 2015). "Young New Zealand men's rowing eight have sights set high at world champs". Stuff. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ Alderson, Andrew (14 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Gold for Mahe Drysdale". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
External links
- Caleb Shepherd at World Rowing
- Caleb Shepherd at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1962: (Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günter Jordan, cox Frank Steinhäuser)
- 1966: (Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox Poul de Haan)
- 1970: (Ștefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox Ladislau Lovrenschi)
- 1974: (Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, cox Aleksandr Lukyanov)
- 1975: (Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox Bernd Fritsch)
- 1977: (Todor Mrankov, Dimitar Yanakiev, cox Stefan Stoykov)
- 1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Olaf Beyer)
- 1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Georg Spohr)
- 1981: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1983: (Ullrich Dießner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor)
- 1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1986: (Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney)
- 1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox Garry Herbert)
- 1994: (Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, cox Milan Ražov)
- 1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox Antonio Cirillo)
- 1996: (Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox Christophe Tellier)
- 1997: (Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox Brett Hayman)
- 1999: (James Neil, Phil Henry, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox Neil Chugani)
- 2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox Claus Müller-Gattermann)
- 2003: (Matt Rich, Dan Beery, cox Andrew Kelly)
- 2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox Luigi Longobardi)
- 2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox Marc Douez)
- 2006: (Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox Ivan Ninković)
- 2007: (Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox Daniel Trojanowski)
- 2008: (Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox Mark Laidlaw)
- 2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox Marcus McElhenney)
- 2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox David Webster)
- 2011: (Vincenzo Capelli, Pierpaolo Frattini, cox Niccolò Fanchi)
- 2012: (Stanislau Shcharbachenia, Aliaksandr Kazubouski, cox Piotr Piatrynich)
- 2013: (Luca Parlato, Vincenzo Abbagnale, cox Enrico D'Aniello)
- 2014: (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, cox Caleb Shepherd)
- 2015: (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2016: (Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2017: (Adrián Juhász, Béla Simon, cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth)