Dick Joyce (rower)
Richard John Joyce (born 1 May 1946) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic gold medals during his career.The reserve rowers were unhappy with the "spare parts" tag and felt that they were good enough to perhaps win a medal if put forward as a coxed four.The crew's boat was sold to a rowing club to recoup costs, and ended up in splinters after a road crash.[5] At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he teamed with Tony Hurt, Wybo Veldman, John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson, Joe Earl, Trevor Coker, Gary Robertson and Simon Dickie (cox) to win the eights.He later owned an engineering business in Seaview, an industrial suburb of Lower Hutt.