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| Club | Torrens Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Stunell is an Australian former representative lightweight rower. He was a two time Australian national champion, won a silver medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships and a gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Rowing Championships.
Raised in South Australia, Stunell's senior rowing was from the Torrens Rowing Club.
Stunell first made South Australian state selection in the 1990 youth eight contesting the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. [1] From 1992 he rowed in South Australian lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup. He was in the three seat of the 1992 four [2] and the 1993 [3] and 1994 [4] victorious South Australian fours.
Stunell made his first Australian representative appearance in 1992 in an U23 lightweight four which contested an U23 Trans-Tasman series against New Zealand crews. The Australian lightweight four won all three of their match races. [5]
Stunnell made his Australian senior representative debut in 1994 in the men's lightweight coxless four at the Indianapolis 1994 with his South Australian team-mate James Seppelt, Bruce Hick and Gary Lynagh. They rowed to a silver medal. [6] That same crew contested the 1994 Commonwealth Rowing Championships held in association with the 1994 Commonwealth Games. They won gold at those championships. [7] The following year at the 1995 World Rowing Championships he held his seat in the Australian lightweight coxless four. They finished in tenth place and it was Stunell's last Australian representative appearance. [6]
Michael McBryde is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was a national champion, an U23 World Champion and a medallist at senior World Championships.
Paul Anthony Thompson MBE is an Australian elite level rowing coach and former rower. As a rower he was an Australian under-age champion, won a silver medal at the 1985 U23 World Championships and rowed in senior King's Cup eights for both South Australia and New South Wales. He has coached Australian and British crews to World Championship titles and Olympic medals including taking Kate Slatter and Megan Still to Australia's first women's Olympic rowing gold at Atlanta 1996. By 2012 he was Great Britain's head coach for women and lightweights and took British crews to three gold and two silver medals at London 2012. Since 2022 he has been Rowing Australia's High Performance Director.
Haimish John Karrasch is an Australian former rower. He was a nine-time Queensland state representative, an eight-time Australian national champion, a dual Olympian and won a silver medal at the 1999 World Rowing Championships.
Rob Mitchell is an Australian lightweight rower. He is a former world champion and an Australian national champion. He won a gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette with the lightweight men's eight.
Michael Wiseman is an Australian former lightweight rower, a world champion and national champion. He won a gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette in the lightweight men's eight.
Tim Wright is an Australian former world champion lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette with the lightweight men's eight.
Blair Tunevitsch is an Australian former lightweight rower – a five time national champion and world champion. He won a gold medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the lightweight men's eight.
Darryn Purcell is an Australian former national and world champion lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the lightweight men's eight.
Malcolm William Batten is an Australian former state and national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.
Eliza Blair is an Australian architect and former representative rower. She was a national champion, a 1997 world champion and the standing world record holder in the women's lightweight coxless pair.
Pamela Westendorf is an Australian former lightweight rower. She won twenty-three Australian national championships, was an Olympian, represented at five World Championships over a twelve-year period and won a silver medal at the 1990 World Rowing Championships.
James Seppelt is an Australian former representative lightweight rower. He was a seven time Australian national champion, won a silver medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships and a gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Rowing Championships.
Matthew Russell is an Australian former representative lightweight rower. He was a two time Australian national champion, and won a bronze medal at the 2000 World Rowing Championships.
Tom Nicholls is a West Australian former representative lightweight rower. He was an Australian national champion, an U23 world champion and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Rowing Championships.
Angus Tyers is an Australian former representative lightweight rower. He won a silver medal at the 2010 World Rowing Championships. In 2021 Angus became a father, with his partner Elizabeth, to Ted Tyers.
Perry Ward is an Australian national representative lightweight rower. He rowed in Western Australia's state selection lightweight crew for thirteen consecutive years from 2006 to 2018, winning the national title on four occasions. He represented Australia at eight senior and U23 world championships, stroking every crew in which he was selected and winning a silver medal at the 2010 World Rowing Championships.
Timothy Widdicombe is an Australian former national representative lightweight rower. He won a silver medal at the 2013 World Rowing Championships.
Nicholas Silcox is an Australian former national representative lightweight rower. He won a silver medal at the 2013 World Rowing Championships.
Paul Francis Rowe was an Australian representative rower and elite level rowing coach. He was an eight-time Australian national champion in both sweep oared and sculling boats across both lightweight and open divisions. He was Australia's lightweight sculling representative at the 1975 World Rowing Championships. He coached scullers and crews to three Australia national title wins and to world championships and to Commonwealth and Olympic Games.
Hamish Parry is a former Australian representative lightweight rower. He was a nine-time national champion in both sculling and sweep-oared crews and has sculled at underage and senior world championships from 2013 to 2021.
