Nathan Cohen (Right in image) is an exciting athlete and one of the New Zealand rowing squad's top scullers. He has already picked up two medals at the World Rowing Junior Championships and took silver at the Under 23 World Champs, as well as winning the Commonwealth Regatta and the World Cup series for double sculls with Rob Waddell in 2008.

The 24 year old pushed World Champion Mahé Drysdale at the BankLink 2007 NZ Championships and with partner Matt Trott, beat a world class field at the same event on their way to securing the Double Scull spot for the 2007 World Championship campaign. They made the final but in 2008 Nathan teamed up with Rob Waddell to take out the World Cup series in the build up to the Olympic Games, where he finished fourth. This was his most competitive showing thus far on the international scene.

Cohen and Trott returned for the international season in the double scull in 2009, taking a silver medal at the Munich World Cup Regatta, winning the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta and finishing just out of the medals in a close fourth at the 2009 Rowing World Championships in Poznan.

During the 2010 domestic season, Cohen retained his national double scull title with Trott for the third time, but had to defeat the German world champions and a fast Auckland combination of Mahe Drysdale and Peter Taylor to secure the spoils.

Nathan retained his seat in the double for the 2010 international season, joined this time by multiple Under 23 world title winner Joseph Sullivan for the campaign. The two had a challenging European tour in the build up to Karapiro 2010, but ended on a high with a competitive bronze medal at the Lucerne World Cup regatta.