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Hamish Carter

Hamish Clive Carter is a New Zealand triathlete. He won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, his second Olympic games. Carter also competed on the International Triathlon Union World Cup circuit as a professional for many years, culminating in a silver medal in 2006 before announcing his retirement early in 2007. During his career he won twelve ITU world cup races.

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Hamish Carter
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Carter in 2008
Personal information
Born (1971-04-28) 28 April 1971
Auckland, New Zealand
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
Retired6 March 2007
Medal record
Men's triathlon
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Individual
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester Individual
ITU World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1997 Perth Individual
Silver medal – second place 2006 Lausanne Individual
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Manchester Individual
ITU World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1998 Overall World Cup

Hamish Clive Carter ONZM (born 28 April 1971 in Auckland)1 is a New Zealand triathlete. He won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, his second Olympic games. Carter also competed on the International Triathlon Union World Cup circuit as a professional for many years, culminating in a silver medal in 2006 before announcing his retirement early in 2007. During his career he won twelve ITU world cup races.

Carter attended Auckland Grammar School where he was a successful rower, competing twice in the Maadi Cup.2 In 2026, 38 years later, former members of Auckland Grammar's 1988 crew (but not Carter himself) challenged the result of that year's Maadi Cup final, alleging that the winning Christ's College crew had used carbon fibre oars; Rowing New Zealand rejected a bid to reopen the result.3

Carter winning the 2005 Chicago triathlon source ↗

Carter won the bronze medal in triathlon at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and then went on to win the triathlon gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating fellow New Zealander, Bevan Docherty. Carter's time was 1:51:07.73, less than eight seconds faster than Docherty's. On 3 September 2006 in Lausanne, Carter won silver at the World Championships after finishing 17 seconds behind Tim Don. In October 2006, Hamish Carter won the Xterra World Championship in Maui, Hawaii defeating a field of more experienced off-road triathletes.

On 6 March 2007 he announced his retirement.45

References

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hamish Carter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  2. Taylor, P. (2007). Get Carter: The Hamish Carter Story, page 28. Auckland: Hachette Livre NA Ltd.
  3. "Rowing NZ rejects bid to reopen 1988 Maadi Cup final result". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  4. Olympic champion Carter retires BBC Sport
  5. Docherty hopes to carry on from Carter Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine NewstalkZB