Eric Murray (rower)

Eric Murray is a retired New Zealand rower who won Olympic gold in the coxless pair at the 2012 London Games and again at Rio de Janeiro in 2016, both times with Hamish Bond. Born in Hastings and raised in Bombay south of Auckland, he came to rowing from rugby and triathlon through the Mercer Rowing Club and won the under 17 quadruple sculls at the Maadi Cup school regatta in 1999. He won six consecutive world championship gold medals in the coxless pair plus further golds in the coxless four and the coxed pair, and set world best times in the coxless pair in 2012 and the coxed pair in 2014 that still stand.