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{{short description|New Zealand sailor}}
{{About|the New Zealand sailor|the Australian cricketer|Rex Sellers (cricketer)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name             = Rex Sellers
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}}
| image            = Rex Sellers MNZM (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Sellers in 2010
| full_name        = Rex Samuel Sellers
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1950|11|11|df=y}} 
| birth_place      = [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]], New Zealand
| height           = 183&nbsp;cm
| weight           = 75&nbsp;kg
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[sailing (sport)|sailing]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Sailing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[Sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Tornado class]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]] | [[Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Tornado class]]}}
| show-medals      = yes
}}

'''Rex Samuel Sellers''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} (born 11 November 1950) is a yachtman from New Zealand. He won a gold medal in the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles, and a silver medal in the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in Seoul, both in the [[Tornado (sailboat)|Tornado]] class with [[Chris Timms]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Rex Sellers |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/rex-sellers-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106100039/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/rex-sellers-1.html |archive-date=6 January 2009 |accessdate=8 February 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He also competed in the Tornado class with [[Brian Jones (sailor)|Brian Jones]] at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992]] and [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Olympics]], where they finished fourth and 15th respectively. Sellers and [[Gerald Sly (sailor)|Gerald Sly]] were selected to sail in the Tornado class for New Zealand at the [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Olympic Games]] in Moscow, but did not compete because of the [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott|US-led boycott]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/rex-sellers |title=Rex Sellers |website=Olympic.org.nz |publisher=[[New Zealand Olympic Committee]] |access-date=10 September 2010 |archive-date=4 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604015302/http://www.olympic.org.nz/nzolympic/athlete/rex-sellers |url-status=deviated }}</ref>

Sellers attended [[Nelson College]] from 1965 to 1967.<ref name="NCOB">''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition</ref> He was appointed a [[New Zealand Order of Merit|Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]] in the [[2010 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|2010 New Year Honours]], for services to yachting.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2010 |title=New Year honours list 2010 |date=31 December 2009 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=5 January 2018}}</ref>

Sellers had a daughter, [[Justina Kitchen]] in 1989. She is a leading exponent in [[Formula Kite]] and she qualified to represent New Zealand at the 2024 Olympics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Development |first=PodBean |title=Ep 9 – Justina Kitchen {{!}} Broad Reach Radio – The Yachting New Zealand Podcast |url=https://yachtingnz.podbean.com/e/ep-9-justina-kitchen/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=yachtingnz.podbean.com |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{World Sailing|rex-sellers|Rex Sellers|id=NZLRS8}}
* {{World Sailing|rex-samuel-sellers|Rex Samuel Sellers|id=NZLRS9}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|rex-samuel-sellers|Rex Samuel Sellers}}
* {{NZOC profile|rex-sellers|Rex Sellers}}
* {{Olympedia|name=Rex Sellers}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Tornado}}
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{{1988 New Zealand Olympic team}}
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{{1996 New Zealand Olympic team}}

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[[Category:1950 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Nelson, New Zealand]]
[[Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit]]
[[Category:New Zealand male sailors (sport)]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Tornado]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Tornado]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Tornado]]
[[Category:Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Tornado]]
[[Category:People educated at Nelson College]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in sailing]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen]]


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