Alexander Lloyd (born 17 December 1990) in

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, is an Australian

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representative

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Club and state rowing

Lloyd grew up in Sydney, attended Boronia Park Primary school and took up rowing in his high school years at Sydney's

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school. In 2008 he contested the Australian schoolboy eight championship title at the

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in the Shore first VIII and placed third. He studied for a BCivilEng from Deakin University. His senior club rowing was with the

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from 2009. In 2012 he contested the Australian U23 coxless four championship title at the

in SRC colours and placed second. He also competed in a coxless pair at those championships with

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and took silver. In 2014 and 2015 Turrin and Lloyd were acknowledged with

's Most Outstanding Oarsman award. In 2014 Lloyd was selected in the New South Wales state representative senior men's eight which won the Kings Cup in the Interstate Regatta within the

. He was in New South Wales King's Cup crews again in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and he stroked that eight in 2016 to a second place. Lloyd won a second King's Cup in the New South Wales eight of 2017.

International representative rowing

Lloyd made his national representative debut in 2012 when selected in the Australian U23 eight to compete at the

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in Trakai. That eight won a silver medal. In 2013 he was elevated to the Australian senior squad. He raced in the men's coxless four at all three World Rowing Cups of 2013 and then at the

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Lloyd raced in the

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with Will Lockwood,

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and

. The crew placed second in the final, losing to The Netherlands by a split second. In 2014 he held his seat in the Australian coxless four at two World Rowing Cups when Lockwood was changed-out for Fergus Pragnell. In the final of the

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, in that coxless four with Dunkley-Smith, Turrin and Pragnell, Lloyd won a bronze medal. In preparation for the

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he crashed during bicycle training in Italy and broke a collarbone. Lloyd had to withdraw from the M4- crew of Lockwood, Dunkley-Smith and Turrin and was replaced by Alexander Hill. That crew went on to win the silver medal on

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. In 2016 he was selected with his Sydney Rowing Club clubmate Spencer Turrin in the men's coxless pair to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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. They won their heat on day one of competition, progressed through their semi-final and finished sixth in the final.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Alexander World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia 1990 births Living people Australian male rowers People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Australia 21st-century Australian people Rowers from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales