Mr Hamish Bond, of Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, CNZM for services to rowing
Mr Hamish Bond, with Eric Murray, won gold medals in the rowing coxless pair at two Olympic Games, setting both world and Olympic records. They had 69 consecutive wins in the men’s coxless pair. They won seven consecutive World Rowing Championship titles in the coxless pair and two in the coxed pair. They hold world-best times in the coxed pair and coxless pair. They won 16 World Rowing Cup medals and have had 11 wins at the Henley Royal Regatta, two wins at the Holland Beker, and 14 domestic wins in New Zealand. Mr Bond was a member of the gold medal winning men’s eight crew at the 2020 Olympics. He competed in road cycling, winning bronze and gold at the Oceania Championship and bronze at the Commonwealth Games.