EVENT: Men's Four
Matt Macdonald will be competing in his second Olympics. He has been selected in the Men's Coxless Four, which qualified for Paris by winning a bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships in Serbia.
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EVENT: Men's Four
Matt Macdonald will be competing in his second Olympics. He has been selected in the Men's Coxless Four, which qualified for Paris by winning a bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships in Serbia.
He was a member of the New Zealand Men's Eight that won gold in Tokyo. The crew's journey to, and victory at, Tokyo was nothing short of remarkable. The eight originally missed out on qualification, having not placed highly enough at the 2019 World Championships.
In 2021, the crew attended the ‘last chance regatta' in Switzerland in an effort to secure their Olympic berth. They won the regatta and returned to New Zealand in May where they were required to undergo two weeks of managed isolation in individual hotel rooms, just over a month out from their departure to Japan.
Macdonald started rowing as a student at Auckland Grammar School.
