Allan Tong
Allan Ray Tong is a New Zealand rower.
Tong was born in 1931 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was a member of the eight from Wanganui Technical College that competed in the inaugural Maadi Cup race, i.e. the New Zealand national school rowing championships, in 1947.
Tong was a member of the Union Boat Club. He represented New Zealand at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 123 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. His son, Ross Tong, was an Olympic medallist in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Tong lives in Evelyn Page retirement village in Orewa, but still coaches rowing for Wentworth College pupils on the Weiti River.
