Nathan Cohen (rower)

Nathan Cohen is a New Zealand rower, born on 2 January 1986 in Christchurch and raised in Invercargill, Southland, who took up rowing in 2000. Partnering Joseph Sullivan in the men's double sculls, he won back-to-back world championship titles in 2010 and 2011 and then the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Eton Dorney, where the pair set the best Olympic time in the heats and came from last place at the 500 metre mark to win the final. In 2006 he rowed single sculls to a gold medal at the World University Games, the first New Zealander to win gold there in any sport, and at the 2008 Summer Olympics he and Rob Waddell finished fourth in the double sculls. He was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2013, retired that December because of a heart rhythm condition, and later returned to national regattas, sometimes with his brother Hayden.