page_title: Noel Mills
hierarchical_section_title: Noel Mills
caption_attribution_description: English: The New Zealand coxed four at the 1971 European Rowing Championships in the final, showing Noel Mills (bow) and Ross Collinge (seat 2).
context_page_description: Noel Edward Mills was a New Zealand rower who won an Olympic silver medal at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
  Mills was born in 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand. He teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Ross Collinge to win the silver medal in the Coxless four at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. In the following year, he won a silver medal at the European Rowing Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union, in the men's pair with Wybo Veldman. He won a bronze medal in the coxed eight at the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. After retiring from international rowing, Mills coached at his Whakatane Rowing Club for many years. He moved to Brisbane, Australia in the late 1990s and worked in a property development company with his nephew.
  Mills died on 8 December 2004.
context_section_description: Noel Edward Mills (13 January 1944 – 8 December 2004) was a New Zealand rower who won an Olympic silver medal at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
  Mills was born in 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand. He teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Ross Collinge to win the silver medal in the Coxless four at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. In the following year, he won a silver medal at the European Rowing Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union, in the men's pair with Wybo Veldman. He won a bronze medal in the coxed eight at the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. After retiring from international rowing, Mills coached at his Whakatane Rowing Club for many years. He moved to Brisbane, Australia in the late 1990s and worked in a property development company with his nephew.
  Mills died on 8 December 2004.
caption: Mills (bow) and Ross Collinge (seat 2) at the 1971 European Rowing Championships
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