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| Born | 18 February 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wendouree Ballarat Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tim Wright (born 18 February 1973) 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. [1]
Wright took up rowing at Ballarat High School as a coxswain. His senior rowing was from the Wendouree-Ballarat Rowing Club. [2]
Richards rowed in Victorian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships in 1997 and 1999. [2]
Wright first represented Australia in the lightweight coxless at the 1994 World Rowing U23 Championships in Paris where the Australians finished fourth. [3] The following year at Groningen in The Netherlands he again raced at the U23 World Championships in the lightweight coxless four and they won the silver medal. [3]
In 1997 he made his debut in an Australian senior crew seated in the bow of the men's lightweight eight. At the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, the Australians won a thrilling final by 0.03 seconds with only 1.5 lengths separating the field. Wright won his first and only World Championship title in his only senior World Championship appearance. [3]
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