29 Jul 2021

NZ's first Olympic gold secured

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 29 July 2021

We've just secured our first gold medal at the Olympics in Tokyo.

Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler won the New Zealand Rowing squad's second medal of the Olympics when they raced in the women's coxless pair final at 12.30pm.

Our reporter Maja Burry is there, she joins Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons.

(L-R) New Zealand's Grace Prendergast and New Zealand's Kerri Gowler compete in the women's pair heats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo on July 24, 2021.

Photo: AFP