4With coxswain until 1989; coxless since then.
In races for eights and for some fours and pairs, there is also a coxswain, who sits at the stern, steers, calls the stroke, and generally directs the strategy of the race.
His winning streak continued at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, where he rowed with Andy Holmes to a gold medal in the coxless (without coxswain) pairs event and earned a bronze medal in coxed pairs.
He won his first Olympic gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Games in the coxed (with coxswain) fours (four-oared shell) rowing event.
Nethercott had taken up rowing during his first year at university but soon moved to the coxswain role because of his physique, steering the women's heavyweight team to victory against Cambridge in 2000.
It doesn't mean much, but if there is fair play I should become at least assistant news editor by the end of the year....At the beginning of this term, the boat-club people asked me if I would care to become a coxswain.
He explained that each raft would hold one drummer, and would need its own crew of roadies — two oarsmen as well as a coxswain — for steadying purposes.
Among the fellows who came to me for my signature was the ship's coxswain, a long-legged, serious-looking young man, from a little town in Mississippi, who had talked to me several times before because he wanted to be a newspaperman after the war.
The stream of signals is nearly constant — in this sense he is like a catcher in baseball, or a coxswain in a scull — and his defenders are alert to his cues.
The coxswain, I knew, would be the first man out of the ship when she grounded, even though he was a member of the crew.
This is especially important, since rowers face backward and kayakers forward: you want to avoid a jousting match with a high school shell powered by eight rowers and a coxswain.
