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Joshua Dunkley-Smith
Joshua Dunkley-Smith (born 28 June 1989 in Geelong, Australia) is an Australian former representative rower. He was a national champion, a dual Olympian, two-time silver Olympic medal winner, and won medals at five World Rowing Championships. Personal Dunkley-Smith attended Albert Park Primary and learned to row at The Geelong College. He rowed in The Geelong College first VIII in Victorian Schools Head of the River races in 2006 and 2007. Dunkley-Smith studied for a B.Arts in Journalism at Monash University. After his return from the Olympics in 2012, Dunkley-Smith took up coaching at Melbourne Girls Grammar. His mother, Addy Bucek, is a former Australian Olympic sailing representative. His younger sister, Addy, was also an Australian representative rower. He retired from competitive rowing following the 2018 King's Cup, which was his ninth state representative appearance for Victoria in that event. Club and state rowing Dunkley-Smith's senior club rowing was from the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Footballer
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the Football (ball)#Australian rules football, oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or between a central and outer post (worth one point, otherwise known as a "behind"). During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kick (football), kicking, handball (Australian rules football), handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for example, players running with the ball must intermittently running bounce, bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Geelong College
The Geelong College is an Australian Independent school, independent and co-educational, Christianity, Christian Day school, day and boarding school located in Newtown, Victoria, Newtown, an inner-western suburb of Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Established in 1861 by Alexander James Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, the Geelong College was formerly a school of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and is now operated in association with the Uniting Church in Australia but is not governed or managed by the church. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for over 1,200 students from kindergarten to Year 12, including around 100 boarding students from Years 7 to 12. The boarding students are accommodated in two boarding school, boarding houses at the senior school campus: Mackie House for boys, Mossgiel House for girls. The college is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Purnell
Nicholas Purnell (born 4 June 1990) is an Australian representative and dual Olympian rower. He is a national champion, who has competed at seven world championships and in the men's eight event at the 2012 London and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. School, club and state rowing Purnell began his rowing career at Shore School in Sydney. He was a member of their second VIII in 2007 which won their event at the AAGPS Head of the River. In 2008 Purnell was in the seven seat of the Shore first VIII, winning that event at the AAGPS Head of the River. Purnell's senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club. He first made state selection for New South Wales in the 2009 youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2010 he was selected in the New South Wales senior men's eight to compete for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He raced seven consecutive King's Cup races for New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Loch
Samuel Loch (born 26 June 1983) is an Australian former representative rower. A dual Olympian and two time bronze medal winner at World Championships, he has set and holds world records in indoor rowing with times set on the Concept 2 rowing machine. Education Loch began his rowing at The King's School in Sydney and was in the stroke seat of the school's 2001 First VIII which won 28 races from 28 starts including the AAGPS Head of the River. This crew also contained future Australian senior national rowers Nicholas Hudson and Matt Ryan, and went on to win the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at the 2001 Henley Royal Regatta. Loch studied and rowed at Princeton University from which he graduated in 2006. Club and state rowing Domestically Loch enjoyed great success as a member of the New South Wales King's Cup crew. Loch was a member of the crew in 2008 which defeated holders, Victoria, by just 0.21 seconds in a win that saw New South Wales start their own winning streak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coxless Four
A coxless four, abbreviated as a 4- and also called a straight four, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars, without a coxswain. The crew consists of four rowers, each having one oar. There are two rowers on the stroke side (rower's right hand side) and two on the bow side (rower's lefthand side). As there is no coxswain, the rudder is controlled by one of the crew, normally with the rudder cable attached to the toe of one of their shoes which can pivot about the ball of the foot, moving the cable left or right. The steersman may row at bow, who has the best vision when looking over their shoulder, or on straighter courses stroke may steer, since they can point the stern of the boat at some landmark at the start of the course. The equivalent boat when it is steered by a coxswain is called a " coxed four". Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 World Rowing Championships
The 2009 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 23 to 30 August 2009 at Lake Malta, Poznań, Poland. The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation), and held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer. In non- Olympic years it is the highlight of the international rowing calendar. Medal summary Men's events Non-Olympic classes Women's events Non-Olympic classes Adaptive events Non-Paralympic classes Medal table Men's and women's events Adaptive events References External links Official website {{World Rowing Championships World Rowing Championships Rowing competitions in Poland World Rowing Championships Rowing Sports competitions in Poznań 2009 in Poznań 2009 in Polish sport Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Waddell
Robert Norman Waddell (born 7 January 1975) is a New Zealand Olympic Gold Medalist and double World Champion Single sculler rower, and America's Cup yachtsman. He is a triple New Zealand Supreme 'Halberg Awards' Sportsperson of the year winner, 1998 to 2000. He holds the third fastest 2000 metre indoor rowing machine time in the world, clocking a time of 5 mins 36.6 secs (5:36.6), which was the previous world record for 19 years before the time was improved by Joshua Dunkley-Smith. He also held the record for 5000m on the rowing machine with a time of 14min 58sec. This made him the first person to go below 15 min for this distance. He holds a black belt in judo. He played rugby union for Waikato. Waddell was Chef de Mission of the 2014 and 2018 New Zealand Commonwealth Games teams, and the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Personal life Waddell was born in 1975 in Te Kūiti. He went to school at Kings College. He studied at the University of Waikato, graduating in 1998 and bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indoor Rower
An indoor rower, or rowing machine, is a machine used to simulate the action of watercraft rowing for the purpose of exercise or training for rowing. Modern indoor rowers are known as ergometers (colloquially erg or ergo) because they measure work performed by the rower (that can be measured in ergs). Indoor rowing has become established as a sport, drawing a competitive environment from around the world. The term "indoor rower" also refers to a participant in this sport. History Chabrias, an Athenian admiral of the 4th century BC, introduced the first rowing machines as supplemental military training devices. "To train inexperienced oarsmen, Chabrias built wooden rowing frames onshore where beginners could learn technique and timing before they went onboard ship." Early rowing machines are known to have existed from the mid-1800s, a US patent being issued to W.B. Curtis in 1872 for a particular hydraulic-based damper design. Machines using linear pneumatic resistance were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Cup (rowing)
The King's Cup is Australia's blue riband annual rowing race for men. Since 1878 it has been contested by state representative senior heavyweight men's eights at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta. Since 1973 the Australian Interstate Regatta has been conducted on the final day of the week-long annual Australian Rowing Championships. The King's Cup is the final event of the Australian Championships and the Interstate Regatta. Early history Victoria and New South Wales commenced inter-colonial racing in eight-oared boats in 1878 when the Victorian Rowing Association invited New South Wales oarsmen from the Sydney and the Mercantile clubs to boat crews for a race on the lower Yarra River over about four miles. Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania all showed an interest in entering crews from the mid-1880s but disagreements over definitions of amateur status resulted in inconsistencies in eligibility criteria in the early decades. New South Wales held firm to a view that not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rowing Championships
The Australian Rowing Championships is an annual rowing event that determines Australia's national rowing champions and facilitates selection of Australian representative crews for World Championships and the Olympic Games. It is Australia's premier regatta, with states, clubs and schools sending their best crews. The Championships commence with the National Regatta - men's, women's and lightweight events in open, under 23, under 19, under 17 and school age events. Rowers at the National Regatta race in their local club colours with composite crews permitted. The Championships conclude with the Interstate Regatta - currently eight events competed by state representative crews or scullers selected by the state rowing associations. The states compete for an overall points tally which decides the Zurich Cup. Competition history Inter-colonial racing began in Australia in 1833 when a Sydney crew raced a Hobart crew in whalers. Schools, varsity and club events were the top-class races ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addy Dunkley-Smith
Addy Dunkley-Smith (born 30 August 1993 in Victoria) is an Australian former national representative rower and a Clinical Psychologist in practice. As a rower she was a four-time Australian national champion and a 2015 medallist at U23 World Rowing Championships. Personal Dunkley-Smith first learned to row at the Barwon Rowing Club and then at The Geelong College. She rowed in The Geelong College's first VIII in Victorian Schools Head of the River races in 2010 and 2011. Her mother, Addy Bucek, is a former Australian Olympic sailing representative. Her older brother Joshua is a former national representative rower who won medals at five World Rowing Championships and at two Olympic Games. Club and state rowing Dunkley-Smith's senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club. She was first selected to represent Victoria in the women's youth eight which contested the Bicentennial Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the 2012 Australian Rowing Championships. In 2013 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addy Bucek
Addy Elizabeth Bucek (born 30 December 1960) is an Australian sailor. She competed in the women's two-person 470 dinghy class for Australia at two Olympic Games. Bucek began sailing as a child, competing with her brother Frank Bucek as skipper in the cadet dinghy class. In 1974 they won the Cadet World Championships in Tróia, Portugal. At the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, with Jeni Lidgett as skipper, she finished 9th in the 470 event. At Savannah, Georgia, the 1996 Olympic sailing venue, she and Lidgett finished 8th in the 470 event. The 470 World Championships in Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ..., Canada 1995 saw Lidgett and Bucek finish 12th. Personal Bucek was born in Geelong, Victoria on 30 December 1960. She married Darren Dunkley-Smith, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
