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Darryn Purcell (born 5 October 1985) is an
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n former national and world champion lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the
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in
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with the lightweight men's eight.


Club and state rowing

Purcell's senior club rowing was from the Toowong Rowing Club in Brisbane. From 2007 to 2015 Purcell was selected at stroke on nine consecutive occasions to represent Queensland in the men's lightweight
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contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the
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. He stroked those Queensland fours for nine of those occasions including three successive Penrith Cup victories from 2013 to 2015. In Toowong Rowing Club colours he contested national championship titles at the
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on a number of occasions including the lightweight
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in 2007 and 2008 and the lightweight men's eight in 2007 and 2008.


International representative rowing

Purcell was first selected to represent Australia at the 2006
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in Hazewinkel in a lightweight
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. They won the bronze medal. The following year at the 2007
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in Glasgow with just one crew change, Purcell again raced in the quad to a fourth placing.Purcell at World Rowing
/ref> In 2008 Purcell was elevated to the Australian senior lightweight squad and he raced in the men's eight which placed eighth at the World Championships in Linz. He was selected in the Australian men's lightweight coxless four contesting the
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in Poznan and placed 14th. In 2010 at the
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in Lake Karapiro, Purcell was seated at bow in the Australian men's lightweight eight stroked by Perry Ward which placed second and won the silver medal. The Australian lightweight eight stayed together into 2011 with the changeout of Perry Ward and Angus Tyers for Rod Chisolm and Tom Gibson and a move of Purcell into the stroke seat. At the 2011 World Championships in Bled he paced their final to perfection coming through the field from the 500mark, sitting second at the 1000 and the 1500, and running down the Italians in the last 200m to take the gold by 0.17seconds, winning Purcell his first and only World Championship title. Purcell continued to represent Australia at the elite world level till 2015. He won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Rowing Cup I in Sydney in a lightweight four and also raced in the lightweight eight at that regatta. He represented Australia in two crews at the
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in Chungju placing tenth in the coxless four and second in the eight winning his third world championship medal - a silver. In 2014 he competed in the lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney and in a coxless pair with Alister Foot at World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. Then at the 2014 World Championships Purcell and Foot finished sixth in the pair. His final Australian representative appearances were in 2015. He held his seat in the lightweight coxless four into 2015 and rowed in that boat at two World Rowing Cups in Europe but when Perry Ward had to make a late withdrawal from the crew due to injury just before the
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Purcell and
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were reassigned to race in a lightweight coxless pair. They finished in sixth place. It was Purcell's last national representative appearance.


References

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Webster's coxswain call of the Australian LM8+ World Championship win of 2011
{{DEFAULTSORT:Purcell, Darryn 1985 births Living people Australian male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian sportsmen