Kevin Lawton | |
Birth Name: | Kevin Edmund Lawton |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1960[1] |
Birth Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
Height: | 186cm (73inches) |
Weight: | 88kg (194lb) |
Sport: | Rowing |
Kevin Edmund Lawton (born 28 September 1960) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Lawton was born in 1960 in Auckland, New Zealand.[2] Along with Don Symon, Barrie Mabbott, Ross Tong and Brett Hollister (cox), Lawton won the bronze medal in the coxed four.[3] He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 461 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
He now lives on a lifestyle block in Leigh, with his wife and their four daughters.