This cartoon of Dick Tonks with loudspeaker in hand suggests the determination that helped make him a great rowing coach. Tonks had won a silver medal in the coxless fours at the 1972 Munich Olympics and then turned to coaching. He made his name coaching Brenda Lawson and Philippa Baker to world championships, and then coached a succession of champions including Rob Waddell, the Evers-Swindell twins, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray, and Mahé Drysdale. Tonks was New Zealand rowing's head coach from 2001 to 2013.
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Cartoon by Murray Webb
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