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Gayle Toogood is an Australian former lightweight rower. She was a thirteen-time national champion and competed at World Championships over a ten-year period from 1984 to 1994. She won medals at two World Championships and at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.
Toogood's senior club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club.
Toogood first made Victorian state representation in 1982 in the lightweight four which contested and won the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. [1] She raced that event for Victoria on a total of nine occasions through to 1994 for eight victories. She stroked those crews on six occasions. [2]
In Melbourne University colours she contested national championship lightweight events at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. She won the national lightweight coxed four title in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1987. [3] She contested lightweight coxless pair championships in 1983, 1986 and 1987 [4] and rowed in the coxed four to a second place in 1985. [5]
Toogood made her Australian representative debut in the lightweight eight at the inaugural world lightweight championships - the 1984 World Rowing Championships in Montreal. The women's eight was a demonstration rather than a championship event but the Australian girls with Toogood in the seven seat rowed to a second place. [6] [7] The following year at Hazelwinkel 1985 - the first Rowing World Championships to include lightweight events within the overall programme - Toogood rowed in the bow seat of the lightweight coxless four which took the bronze medal. [8]
For the next two years Toogood held a seat in the Australian women's lightweight coxless four. She stroked that crew to a fourth placing at the 1986 World Rowing Championships and that same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Toogood led the four to a silver medal. [9] She was in the bow seat of the four at 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen when they again finished fourth. [6]
Following a long break from elite rowing Toogood was back in representative contention in 1993 when she was a reserve for the lightweight women's sweep crews who went to the 1993 World Championships. In Indianapolis 1994 Toogood made her last Australian representative appearance when she was again selected in the bow seat of the lightweight coxless four. That boat finished in sixth place. [6]
James Bruce Tomkins, is an Australian rower, seven-time World Champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is Australia's most awarded oarsman, having made appearances at six Olympic games ; eleven World Championships ; four Rowing World Cups and eighteen state representative King's Cup appearances – the Australian blue riband men's VIII event,. Tomkins is one of only five Australian athletes and four rowers worldwide to compete at six Olympics. From 1990 to 1998 he was the stroke of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.
Michael Scott McKay, OAM, known as Mike McKay, is an Australian rower, a four-time world champion, a four-time Olympic medallist and Commonwealth Games gold medallist. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.
Megan Leanne Marcks, OAM is an Australian former national, Olympic and world champion rower. She is an Olympic and World Champion in the coxless pair who represented Australia at the Olympics in 1992 and 1996.
Andrew Dollman Cooper is a former Australian Olympic Champion and World Champion rower. He is a national champion, dual Olympian and two-time World Champion who achieved success as a member of Australia's "Oarsome Foursome" in 1991 and 1992.
Simon Burgess is an Australian national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and dual Olympic silver medal-winning lightweight rower. He represented Australia ten times at World Rowing Championships between 1990 and 2002. He won world and national championships in both sculls and in sweep-oared boat classes during an eighteen-year elite level career.
Paul Reedy is an Australian former rower. He is a dual Olympian, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medalist who competed over a seventeen-year period at the elite level. He was a fourteen-time Australian national champion across both sculling and sweep-oared boats and then coached six Australian crews to national championship titles. He later coached at the London Rowing Club and was appointed as British national Head Coach from 2009. He took Great Britain's lightweight women's sculling crews to Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2012 and 2016.
Robyn Grey-Gardner is an Australian former eight-time national champion, national representative, Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winning rower. She won Australian championships in all three sweep-oared women's rowing events - the coxless pair, the coxless four and in the eight.
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.
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.
Marcus Andrew "Mark" Doyle is an Australian former national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.
Amanda Cross is an Australian national champion and national representative lightweight rower. She represented Australia at four World Rowing Championships and at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.
Karin Riedel is an Australian national champion and former national representative lightweight rower. She represented Australia at two World Rowing Championships winning medals at both.
Denise Rennex is an Australian former lightweight rower. She was a national varsity champion and won a bronze medal at the 1985 World Championships.
Brigid Cassells is an Australian former lightweight rower. She won silver medals at two World Rowing Championships.
Leeanne Whitehouse is an Australian former lightweight rower. She was a seven-time national champion and won a silver medal at the 1988 World Rowing Championships.
Pamela Westendorf is an Australian former representative 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.
Brian Digby is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an eleven-time national champion, an Australian national representative at seven World Rowing Championships and a Commonwealth Games. He won silver medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and at the 1983 World Rowing Championships. For a five year period from 1984 to 1988 he was the consistent stroke of the Australian national champion lightweight coxless four.
David Palfreyman is an Australian former coxswain, rower and rowing coach. He was a national champion three times as a coxswain and twice as a rower and won a gold medal at the 1962 Commonwealth Games.
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.
Deborah Heather Clingeleffer-Woodford was an Australian representative lightweight rower and educator. She won a silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in a lightweight coxless four.
