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Rowing Australia (RA) is the governing body for the sport of rowing in Australia.. Established in 1925, it is the only organisation recognised by the Federation Internationale des Societies d’Aviron (FISA), the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), to conduct rowing activities in, and on behalf of Australia.
The Australian Rowing Championships is an annual rowing event that determines Australia's national rowing champions and facilitates selection of Australian representative crews for World Championships and the Olympic Games. It is Australia's premier regatta, with states, clubs and schools sending their best crews.
The list does not include rowers who have only represented at the junior or U23 level or only at a Trans-Tasman series or World Rowing Cups. In October 2015 Rowing Australia launched the McVilly-Pearce pin, named after Cecil McVilly , Australia's first Olympic rowing representative and Bobby Pearce , the first Australian rower to win an Olympic ...
Black made his first national senior squad appearances in the Australian men's eight in 2018 at stroke at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz and in the two seat at the WRC III in Lucerne where the Australians took a silver medal 0.14seconds behind Germany. [9]
The national championship was for four women boats, [4] Also in 1920, the first national women's rowing sporting body was created. It was called the Australian Women's Rowing Council. [4] The rules of rowing changed, and starting in 1934, the national championship also had a competition for eight women boats. [6]
In 1909, he coxed the Sydney University eight, which won the men's eight event at the Australian University Championships. [4] His senior club rowing was from the Sydney Rowing Club. In 1910 and 1911 he steered the New South Wales crews to victory in the men's eight at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta. [5] [6]
Milton Francis (18 May 1932 – 30 June 2009) was an Australian representative rower.He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1] He was twice a national champion and made nine King's Cup state representative appearances for Western Australia achieving podium finishes in eight of those.
After retirement from first-class rowing Howell lived and worked in the Ngambie and Bendigo region of northern Victoria. His community commendations noted in 2020 when Howell was awarded his Medal in the Order of Australia are set ought in Andrew Guerin's profile on Howell as in the Australian Rowing History and include the following: [1]