- Cyril Stiles
-
Medal record Men's Rowing Competitor for 
New ZealandOlympic Games Silver 1932 Los Angeles Coxless pairs British Empire Games Bronze 1938 Sydney Eight Cyril Alec "Bob" Stiles (10 October 1904 – 5 March 1985) was a New Zealand rower. He won a Silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the coxless pairs with partner Fred Thompson.[1] He also won a Bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney in the eights.[1]
A Christchurch street is named after Stiles. Stiles Place runs off another street named after a New Zealand rower; that is Arnst Place named after Richard Arnst. Both are near the river course used by local rowers known as Kerr's Reach.
References
External links
Categories:- 1904 births
- 1985 deaths
- New Zealand rowers
- Olympic rowers of New Zealand
- Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
- Rowers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- New Zealand Olympic medalist stubs
- New Zealand rowing biography stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
