Dudley Storey

Leonard Dudley Storey ( born November 27, 1939 in Wairoa ) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals.

Storey began his career in 1954 at the West End Rowing Club, then rowed during his international career with the Auckland Rowing Club and then moved back to the West End Rowing Club. At the Olympic Games in 1964, he took up in the four with coxswain, reaching eighth place. Four years later he won at the 1968 Olympic Games on the regatta course in Xochimilco in Mexico City along with Dick Joyce, Ross Collinge, Warren Cole and the helmsman Simon Dickie the Olympic gold medal in the quad with before the boats from East Germany and Switzerland. This was the first Olympic gold medal for New Zealand rowers at all and the first medal in 36 years.

At the World Cup 1970 in St. Catharines Storey, Cole, Joyce and Dickie rowed in the eight New Zealand, won the bronze behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. At the Olympic Games in 1972 at the Rowing Course near Munich Storey joined with Richard Tonks, Ross Collinge and Noel Mills in the coxless four at the boat won the silver medal behind the quad from the GDR.

After his career Storey was active as a rowing coach. In the 1980s he was responsible for the New Zealand national team.