coach event club birth_place headercolor weight height sport birth_date residence article_title name
ramon andersson sprint canoe canning river canoe club pietermaritzburg , south africa lightblue 86 kg lb 0 on 1.89 0 on canoeing 11 may 1988 perth , western australia , australia stephen bird
 stephen bird
stephen bird

stephen bird -lrb- born may 11 , 1988 in pietermaritzburg , south africa -rrb- is a south african-born australian sprint canoeist .
he is a three-time national champion -lrb- 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 -rrb- in the men 's kayak doubles -lrb- 200 m -rrb- , and a member of the canning river canoe club in perth , western australia , under his personal coach ramon andersson .
bird is also a commerce graduate at curtin university .
bird qualified for the men 's k-2 200 metres at the 2012 summer olympics in london , by placing first from the 2012 icf oceania qualification tournament in penrith , new south wales .
bird and his partner jesse phillips finished sixth in the final by four hundredths of a second -lrb- 0.04 -rrb- behind the argentine pair miguel correa and rubén voisard , with a time of 35.315 seconds .
