| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 5 October 1942 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Rowing |
| Club | Nagambie Rowing Club |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | Men's coxed pair B Final |
Bruce Richardson (born 5 October 1942) is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [1]
Richardson was raised in country Victoria. His junior and senior club rowing was from the Nagambie Rowing Club in Victoria's Goulburn Valley starting as a 14 year old in a beginners crew in 1957. . [2] Richardson began rowing and racing in a pair with Neil Lodding when he was just 18 and they won a state junior title and a state country title in the 1961 season. Richardson career's was guided and coached by his pair-partner Neil Lodding's father Alf, the club captain and senior coach at Nagambie. [2] Alf had represented for Victoria in the Kings Cup eights of 1934 and 1935. [3]
Richardson and Lodding aimed for selection for the 1962 Commonwealth Games but were beaten out by the Mosman Rowing Club pair of Maurie Grace and Bill Hatfield. [2] They continued to win Victorian state titles in coxed and coxless pairs throughout 1962, 63 and 64. [2] At the inaugural Australian Rowing Championships in 1962 they took the bronze in the national coxless pair championship, [4] then in 1964 they took silver as a coxless pair and won the gold as a coxed pair with Wayne Gammon on the rudder. [5]
Selection trials were held in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics rowing squad on Lake Burley Griffin. Richardson, Lodding and Gammon won their trial and the right to represent. In Tokyo they placed third in their heat, second in their repechage and rowed in the B final where they paced third for an overall ninth ranking at the Olympic regatta. [6]
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