Fergus Hamilton (born 29 January 2000) is an Australian representative

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. He was a 2017 World Junior Champion and in 2023 made the Australian senior squad.

Club and varsity rowing

Hamilton attended

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where he took up rowing. He was Captain of Boats in his senior year. His senior club rowing has been from Melbourne's

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. His father Richard Hamilton was an Olympian rower for Great Britain at

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. Fergus Hamilton won a place a

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

to study environmental science. He rowed in the men's heavyweight crews in his freshman and second years. In the 2019/20 season he rowed in the six seat of the Yale senior eight which won the collegiate title at the Head of the Charles.

International representative rowing

Being in the varsity program at Yale, Hamilton found himself selected to Australian underage squads before having rowed for his state of Victoria. His Australian representative debut came in 2017 when selected in a double-scull to contest the

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in Trakai, Lithuania. Racing with Cormac Kennedy-Leverett they won their heat, semi-final and final to take the Junior World Championship title.2017 JWRC at Guerin's Austn Rowing History
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Hamilton rowed in the U23 men's eight competing as an Australia 2 crew at the

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III in Lucerne. Two weeks later in that crew he won a bronze medal at the U23 World Championships in Varese. In 2023 Hamilton was a late selection into the Australian men's senior sweep squad for the international season. At the

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III in Lucerne Switzerland, Hamilton raced as Australia's men's pair entrant with

Simon Keenan Simon Keenan (born 8 October 1992) is an Australian representative rower. He is a national champion, a silver medal winner at world championships and is an Olympian. He rowed in the Australian men's eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Early lif ...

. They won the B final for an overall seventh placing. Hamilton and Keenan were selected to race Australia's coxless pair at

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in Belgrade, Serbia. They won their heat, progressed through quarters and semis and ultimately placed 2nd in the B final for an overall eight place world ranking. In the process they qualified an Australian men's coxless pair for

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References

External links

Hamilton at World Rowing
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