E37 | Eric Murray

Episode summary | Eric Murray

Eric won 8 World Championships, 2 Olympic golds, went 69 races undefeated in the Kiwi Paid with Hamish Bond, 2 Halberg awards, and was named a member of NZ order of merit across a 20 year career as one of NZ’s finest rowers.

But he also has a boat load of stories off the water. He talks about fighting Manu Vatuvei in the 2012 Fight for Life, competing in a TV show to find NZ’s toughest man, nights out in Switzerland – including the time he wrestled a swan into a pub, the infamous meeting when Dick Tonks blew his lid at the Kiwi Pair, and how having a son with autism changed him.

Show notes | Eric Murray

1.53 Between Two Beers as an excuse to drop by a double Olympic gold medal winning rower’s house

5.00 The 2012 Fight for Life vs Manu Vatuvei

19.00 No Opportunity Wasted with Phil Keoghan

27.23 The 50c coin loop hole in Switzerland

30.54 Good nights out at Mr Pickwick, the swan story, and some stories from 20 years off the water

42.26 Looking back at all the achievements

45.57 Physical v mental: Setting the indoor rowing world record in 2011

54.03 Eric on high performance training

1.02.21 The Dick Tonks blow out

1.10.05 Coming home for the birth of his son Zac

1.14.00 High performance sport as an opportunity cost

1.17.12 How has Zac’s autism shaped Eric and did it play a part in his retirement from rowing?

1.27.01 What does retirement look like for Eric Murray?

1.29.44 How years of training turned Eric and Hamish Bond in “highly tuned engines”

1.34.14 From amateur, to semi-professional, to professional

1.37.07 The consequences of tweeting on Election Day

1.41.42 Behind the scenes of Celebrity Treasure Island

1.47.00 Making the 2004 Athens Olympics

1.50.32 Star struck moments in the Olympic Village

1.52.39 Final words from Steve, Seamus and Eric