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{{Short description|New Zealand sailor (1927–2016)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox sailor
| name           = 
| image          = Jack Cropp, 1956 (cropped).jpg
| image_size     =
| caption        = Cropp in 1956
| fullname       = John Urquhart Cropp
| nationality    = 
| birth_date     = 23 May 1927 
| birth_place    = [[Hokitika]], New Zealand
| death_date     = 25 June 2016 (aged 89)<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31926773/nz-sailing-great-cropp-dies-at-89/|url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815093521/https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31926773/nz-sailing-great-cropp-dies-at-89/ | archivedate=15 August 2016 | title=Jack Cropp, one half of New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal sailing crew, has died at the age of 89 | publisher=NZ Newswire | date=27 June 2016}}</ref>
| death_place    = [[Tākaka]], New Zealand 
| classes        = [[Sharpie (boat)#Modern sharpies|Sharpie]]
| club           = Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club
| show-medals    = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}}}}
{{MedalOlympics}}
{{MedalGold | [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]] | [[Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Sharpie class]]}}
}}

'''John Urquhart Cropp''' (23 May 1927 – 25 June 2016) was a New Zealand yachtsman. Together with [[Peter Mander]], Cropp won the [[Sharpie (boat)#Modern sharpies|Sharpie]] class at the 1956 Olympics.

Cropp and Mander were the first sailors from New Zealand to compete at Olympics. They finished second, and were promoted to the first place after Australian team was disqualified for obstruction. They were inducted into the [[New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1990.<ref name=obit/>

Cropp was born on a small farm at [[Kowhitirangi]], near [[Hokitika]]. When he was a toddler, his family moved to McCormacks Bay, [[Christchurch]]. There he started sailing, together with Mander who lived nearby. Cropp initially worked as a [[lithographer]] in the printing industry, but after becoming a prominent sailor turned into a professional boatbuilder and designer. In 1973 Cropp, his wife Judith and their three children moved to [[Tākaka]], where he died aged 89.<ref>[https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/jack-cropp Jack Cropp]. New Zealand Olympic Committee</ref><ref>[https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31926773/nz-sailing-great-cropp-dies-at-89/#page1 Yahoo! News Australia, NZ sailing great Cropp dies at 89] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815093521/https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31926773/nz-sailing-great-cropp-dies-at-89/ |date=15 August 2016 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{World Sailing|id=NZLJC10|www=john-urquhart-cropp|name=John Urquhart Cropp}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|john-urquhart-cropp|John Urquhart Cropp}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{New Zealand Olympic Committee}}
* {{New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame|name=Peter Mander and Jack Cropp}}

{{1956 New Zealand Olympic team}}

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[[Category:New Zealand male sailors (sport)]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in sailing]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics – 12 m2 Sharpie]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Hokitika]]
[[Category:People from Tākaka]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in sailing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen]]


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