Cyril Stiles

Cyril Stiles

Medal record Men's rowing Representing  New Zealand Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles Coxless pair British Empire Games 1938 Sydney Eight

Cyril Alec "Bob" Stiles (10 October 1904 – 5 March 1985) was a New Zealand rower. He won a Silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the coxless pairs with partner Rangi Thompson.^[1] He also won a Bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney in the eights.^[1]

A Christchurch street is named after Stiles. Stiles Place runs off another street named after a New Zealand rower; that is Arnst Place named after Richard Arnst. Both are near that part of the Avon River used by local rowers known as Kerr's Reach.

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