Noel Mills
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Noel Edward Mills (13 January 1944 – 8 December 2004) was a New Zealand rower who won an Olympic silver medal at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Mills was born in 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] He teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Ross Collinge to win the silver medal in the Coxless four at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.[2] In the following year, he won a silver medal at the European Rowing Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union, in the men's pair with Wybo Veldman.[3] He won a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.[4] After retiring from international rowing, Mills coached at his Whakatane Rowing Club for many years.[1] He moved to Brisbane, Australia in the late 1990s and worked in a property development company with his nephew.[1]
Mills died on 8 December 2004.[5]
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