Les O'Connell

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Olympic medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Men's Rowing
	1984 Los Angeles	Coxless Four
World Rowing Championships
	1982 Rotsee	Eight
	1983 Duisburg	Coxed Four

Les O'Connell (born 23 May 1958 in Timaru, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Gold medal at the1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, USA. Along with Shane O'Brien, Conrad Robertson, and Keith Trask he won Gold in the coxless four. At the 1982 World Rowing Championships at Rotsee, Switzerland, he won a Gold medal with the New Zealand eight seated in the bow.^[1]

In 1982, the 1982 rowing eight crew was named sportsman of the year.^[2] The 1982 team was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.^[3]