Education
Bridgewater and Twaddle finished fourth in the pairs final at the Athens Olympics.
Bridgewater and Twaddle finished fourth in the pairs final at the Athens Olympics.
The pair finished second in the 2006 and 2007 World Rowing Championships. In 2008, following the Beijing Olympics, Bridgewater matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew in the 155th University Boat Race on 29 March 2009, rowing at seven. While at Oxford, Bridgewater stroked the Oriel College 1st Eight in Summer Eights, bumping Balliol College to finish 3rd on the river.
Later that year he graduated from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School with an Master of Business Administration. He currently works in the financial sector in Singapore.
The pair began representing New Zealand together in 2004 and won bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. They won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in 2005, in the Magic 45 minutes where four New Zealand crews won gold medals. Bridgewater rowed for the Avon club based in Christchurch, and won several titles at New Zealand Rowing Championships, beginning in 2002. In the 2009 New Year Honours, Bridgewater was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing.
