With Helmer Pedersen, Wells won the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

He was also a rower, and his coxed four narrowly missed selection for the 1960 Summer Olympics.

[1] Wells and Pedersen were inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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