Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair
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The Men's coxless pair competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.
Bond and Murray at the London Olympics
The final at 1500 m
Eric Murray (rower)
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Eric Gordon Murray is a retired New Zealand rower and gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games, as well as at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. He won six consecutive World Rowing Championship gold medals in the coxless pair plus two other gold medals in the coxless four and coxed pair. In 2012 an 2014 he set two world best times in the coxless pair and coxed pair respectively, which as of 2021 still stand as the world's best in those boat classes.
Murray in 2013
Murray (right) in 2010, with Hamish Bond
Murray (right), after his investiture as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the administrator of the government, Dame Helen Winkelmann, at Government House, Auckland, on 14 April 2023