| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Stewart Battersby | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 November 1958 (age 65) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Mosman Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||
James Stewart Battersby (born 5 November 1958) is an Australian former national champion and Olympic level rower.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Stewart Battersby | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 November 1958 (age 65) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Mosman Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||
James Stewart Battersby (born 5 November 1958) is an Australian former national champion and Olympic level rower.
His senior rowing was with the Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney.
Battersby was first selected to represent New South Wales in the 1978 youth eight contesting the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He was then selected in the New South Wales U23 squad who contested a 1979 Trans Tasman series against New Zealand. [1] In 1981 Battersby was selected in the New South Wales senior men's eight who contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. [2] He made further King's Cup appearances for New South Wales in 1982 and 1984 and won that title in 1984. [3]
In a composite New South Wales selection four with Jordi Martin, Graeme Jones and Graham Edmunds, Battersby won the 1981 Australian national coxed four title. [4] He contested the men's coxless pair and the men's coxed pair at the 1982 Australian Rowing Championships. With Steve Evans, Craig Muller and Rick Goodrich, in an all-Mosman crew Battersby won the Australian national coxed four title in 1984. That crew was coached by Rusty Robertson. [5]
Battersby was first selected to Australian representation in 1981 in a coxed four who raced at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich to a sixth placing. [6] In 1983 Battersby secured the five seat of the Australian eight selected within a limited squad sent to the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg Germany. [6] The eight performed well in lead up regattas at Vichy, Ratzeburg and Nottingham. In the final at the World Championships the Australian crew drew a bad lane and lost the benefit of the tail breeze however they raced a strong second 1000m and finished in third place for a bronze medal. [7] [6]
The Australian eight selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was built around the national champion Mosman Rowing Club coxed four and included Evans, Muller and Battersby. [8] Battersby was selected in the six seat. The Australian eight finished third in the final winning bronze behind Canada and the USA. [9]
Battersby is married to Justine Carroll an Australian champion lightweight rower also from the Mosman Rowing Club who won silver in the Australian women's lightweight four at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan. [10]
Tom Laurich is an Australian former rower – a junior world champion, a national champion, an Olympian and a medallist at World Championships. He has coached crews at the elite world class level.
Timothy John Willoughby was an Australian rower, yachtsman and stockbroker. He was a five-time Australian national champion rower, a dual Olympian and won a bronze medal in the Australian men's eight at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Craig Muller is an Australian former representative rower. He is a five time national champion and Olympic bronze medallist.
Ian Edmunds is an Australian former rower. He is an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a 1984 Olympic medalist.
Stephen Frederick Evans OAM is an Australian former national champion, world champion, dual Olympian and Olympic medal winning rower.
Gavin Thredgold is an Australian former rowing coxswain and coach. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a medalist at Olympic and world championships.
Graeme Keith Allan was an Australian representative rower who competed at two Olympic Games and won two Commonwealth Games medals.
Justine Carroll is an Australian former lightweight rower. She was a three-time national champion and won a silver medal at the 1988 World Rowing Championships.
Gary Herford was an Australian rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Malcolm Campbell Shaw was a New Zealand-born, Australian representative rower. He competed for Australia at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
John Clark is an Australian former rower. He was a six-time national champion who competed at world championships and in the men's eight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Chris D. Shinners is an Australian rower. He was a six-time Australian champion who represented at world championships and competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Ian Clubb is an Australian Human Resources business executive and former Olympian rower. He was an eleven-time national champion rower who represented at four world championships and in the men's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won five consecutive Australian national championship titles in a coxed four from 1976 to 1980.
Garry Uebergang is an Australian former rower. He was a three-time national champion and competed in the men's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Islay Lee is an Australian former rower. He was a fifteen-time national champion in both sculls and sweep-oared boats, a national representative at world championships and a dual Olympian. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics. From 1976 to 1980 he was Australia's prominent sweep-oared stroke, setting the pace in Sydney Rowing Club crews which won five successive national titles in the coxed four, three successive titles in a coxed pair, and in three successive King's Cup winning New South Wales selection eights.
Athol MacDonald is an Australian former representative rower. He was a four-time national champion who competed at World Championships and in the men's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Stuart Carter is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a ten-time national champion and a representative at world championships and Olympics. In 1976 still aged seventeen and in his final year of school, he coxed Sydney Rowing Club crews to three state titles in a pair, four and eight and to two national titles in a pair and a four; coxed the New South Wales representative eight to a King's Cup victory; and coxed the Australian men's eight at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Gordon Clubb is an Australian former rower. He was an eight-time national champion rower who represented at three world championships. He won four consecutive Australian national championship titles in a coxed four from 1977 to 1980.
Edward V "Terry" O'Hanlon is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was seven times an Australian national champion who coxed Australian representative crews at two World Rowing Championships.
Andrew Cox is an Australian former rowing coxswain and former Sydney first grade rugby union head coach. As a cox he was an U23 Australian national champion and later steered Australia's senior lightweight eight at the 1987 World Rowing Championships.