Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Bosworth


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:37, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Sam Bosworth

 * ... that Sam Bosworth is the first male coxswain to have won an international elite rowing event with a female crew? Source: "he's the first male to be calling the shots for a women's crew" (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11915975) and "Sam Bosworth has become the first male coxswain to win a Women's World Rowing event" (http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/News-and-Events/Sports-scholar-sets-world-rowing-first/) and "Sam Bosworth is the first male to win a women's World Cup rowing event" (https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/94905701/sams-the-man-for-kiwi-womens-crew--canterbury-cox-sam-bosworth-creates-rowing-history)
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 * Reviewed:Homi F. Daji
 * Comment: I haven't nominated at DYK in years but when I wrote this bio, I first thought "did they get the gender wrong and is Sam possibly a Samantha?" But no, it turns out that the International Rowing Federation changed the rules around coxswains early in 2017. I've recorded this in some detail at Coxswain (rowing). As an aside, it appears that no other country has taken this up yet apart from the New Zealanders with their women's eight. But either way, there are very few international rowing regattas each year (three World Rowing Cups followed by the World Rowing Championships, and every four year the Summer Olympics) and by World Rowing Cup II, Bosworth and the eight females had scored a gold. Just to be sure that the journalists didn't get it wrong in their excitement, I've checked the coxed teams that did compete at cups I and II (men's eight at both cups, and women's eight at Cup II only) and indeed, only the New Zealand women's team has a cox of the other gender. Note that the word "elite" in the hook is important, as the former gender restriction did not apply at World Rowing Masters Regattas, and para-rowing has mixed teams anyway. QPQ yet to be done.

Created by Schwede66 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:42, 8 October 2017 (UTC).