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Richard ("Dick") Tonks (born 21 February 1951 in Wanganui, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Along with Ross Collinge, Dudley Storey and Noel Mills he won the Silver medal in the coxless four. After retiring as a competitive rower Tonks turned to coaching and has been influential in the careers of rowers such as Olympic medallists Phillippa Baker, Brenda Lawson, Rob Waddell and Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell. He was the New Zealand rowing coach at both the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He now lives in Karapiro next to the site of the 1978 and 2010 World Rowing Championships.
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