Conrad Robertson

Rowing Robertson was a member of the North Shore Rowing Club. At the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a silver medal with the New Zealand eight. Robertson was selected to compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with the New Zealand eight but did not compete due to the Olympics boycott. At the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, he stroked the gold medal winning coxed four with Greg Johnston (3 seat), Keith Trask (2 seat), Les O'Connell (bow), and Brett Hollister (cox). Along with Les O'Connell, Shane O’Brien and Keith Trask he won gold in the coxless four at the 1984 Summer Olympics at Lake Casitas in California. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships at Hazewinkel, Belgium, he came twelfth in the quad sculls.

Since the mid-1990s, Robertson has been a selector for Rowing New Zealand.

Robertson Boats His father bought new premises for the boatbuilding business in Warkworth in 1981. Soon afterwards, Chris Robertson retired, and brothers Martin and Conrad Robertson took over the business. At a later point, Conrad Robertson bought out his brother and has since then been the sole owner of the business, which is now known as Robertson Boats.