Sam Bosworth

Rowing career Bosworth is a member of the Avon Rowing Club. At the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz, Austria, he won silver with the U23 men's coxed four. Bosworth won two subsequent silver medals at U23 World Championships in the same boat class in 2014 and 2015, both times beaten by the Italian team. At the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the U23 men's coxed four finally won gold, beating the Italian team.

In February 2017, the International Rowing Federation removed gender-restrictions from coxswains, On 2 July 2017, Bosworth's women's eight won the Remenham Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. Bosworth then coxed the New Zealand women's eight at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida. When they surprisingly won their heat, displacing the favourite team from the USA to second place, he became the first male to win a race at a World Championship race with a female crew. In the A-final, the New Zealand team came third to win a bronze medal. He is the first male to ever cox for a female crew in New Zealand.

In August 2021, he coxed the New Zealand men's eight to a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.