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New Zealand rower
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Male
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21 November 1944(Lower Hutt)
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Biography
Ross Hounsell Collinge (born 21 November 1944 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Collinge won the gold medal in the coxed four along with Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox). At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Noel Mills to win the silver medal in the coxless four. He rowed with the coxed eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal.