{"id":310640,"date":"2026-03-03T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310640\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:58:07","slug":"olympic-rowers-tom-mackintosh-and-davina-waddy-announce-their-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310640\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic rowers Tom Mackintosh and Davina Waddy announce their engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>3 Mar, 2026 05:50 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Olympic rowers Tom Mackintosh and Davina Waddy are engaged. Photo \/ Tom Mackintosh and Davina Waddy<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand Olympic rowing stars Tom Mackintosh and Davina Waddy have announced their engagement, sharing a sweet milestone moment with fans on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The couple wrote in a joint Instagram post: \u201c9 years down and 999 to go\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The pair, both 29, beamed with excitement in one photo taken<br \/>\n         just moments after the proposal, with Waddy proudly showing off a striking emerald engagement ring.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Mackintosh popped the question atop a rolling farm hill, later sharing a playful image of grass stuck to his knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 3 Mar, 2026 05:50 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,25429,696,67344,2004,9517,305,169217,1073,3259,4505,111,139,69,25292,29417,38404,13660,1072,213,5436,16800,165,5134,169218,102,80],"class_list":["post-310640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-and","tag-announce","tag-announced","tag-davina","tag-engagement","tag-fans","tag-have","tag-mackintosh","tag-media","tag-milestone","tag-moment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympic","tag-rowers","tag-rowing","tag-sharing","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-sweet","tag-their","tag-tom","tag-waddy","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}