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| Full name | Richard “Sponge” Powell | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1960 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
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Richard Powell (born 9 December 1960) is an Australian rower. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1]
Richard now coaches rowing at Brisbane Grammar school and All Hallows school. He spends his time passing on his knowledge to younger years.
Henry Robert Pearce was an Australian three-time world champion sculler of the 1920s and 1930s. He won consecutive Olympic gold medals in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won the World Sculling Championship in 1933, and twice successfully defended that title in 1934 and 1938. He was a three-time Australian national champion and won the Diamond Sculls at the 1931 Henley Royal Regatta.
Alexander McCulloch was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Gary David Robertson is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Eric Franciscus Maria Verdonk was a New Zealand rower who won bronze medals in the single sculls events at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1986 Commonwealth Games, and 1990 World Rowing Championships.
Ian Andrew Wright is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Wright has won 31 national titles during his career. After his rowing career ended, he became a coach and his Swiss lightweight men's four team won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is now Australia's head rowing coach announced in September 2016. He immediately coached the Australian men's four to a gold medal at the 2017 world rowing championships.
Peter Gregory Johnston, known as Greg Johnston, is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. During his rowing career, Johnston has won 26 national championship titles in rowing, and was world champion in 1983 in the coxed four event.
Hugh Robert Arthur Edwards, also known as Jumbo Edwards, was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
William Becklean is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
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Stephen Mark Hawkins OAM is an Australian former national champion, World Champion and Olympic gold medal winning lightweight rower.
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.
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Jason Day is an Australian rower who competed at three Olympic Games.
The men's eight (M8+) competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California, United States. It was held from 31 July to 5 August. There were 7 boats from 7 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. New Zealand had won the last two world championships, and the other strong team, East Germany, was absent from the event due to the Eastern Bloc boycott. This made New Zealand the strong favourite. But the final was won by Canada, with the United States and Australia the other medallists, and New Zealand coming a disappointing fourth.
John Augustus George Ryrie was a two-time Australian national champion rower who represented for Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Harry Ross-Soden was an Australian rower who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Robert George Krulock "Ken" Waley was an Australian coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was Australia's first selected representative coxswain.
James Galloway OAM is an Australian former national champion, World Champion and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.
Richard Garrard is an Australian former rower. He was a seven-time Australian national champion who rowed at the elite level for a fifteen-year period from 1964-79. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships.
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