Jim Stride (born 7 April 1955) is an Australian former representative

rower Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars (called blades in the United Kingdom) are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles are ...

. He was a six-time Australian national champion, raced in the Australia men's eight at the

1978 World Rowing Championships The 1978 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 October to 5 November at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand. Twenty-eight countries were represented at the regatta. In the history of the World Ro ...

and competed in the men's coxless pair event at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

Club and state rowing

Jim Stride's senior rowing was the

Sydney Rowing Club Sydney Rowing Club is the oldest rowing club in New South Wales, Australia formed in 1870. It has occupied its current site on Port Jackson's Parramatta River at Abbotsford, New South Wales, Abbotsford Point since 1874. The club has a focus on it ...

where for much of his career he was coached by his father Reg Stride. Stride made his state representative debut for New South Wales sculling for the President's Cup at the 1977 Interstate Regatta within the

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 pre ...

. At the time states would nominate more than one entrant and competitors would proceed through heats and eliminations. In 1978 Stride moved in the New South Wales senior men's eight contesting the

King's Cup King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King's Cup (Bahrain), the premier national knockout football tournament * King's ...

. He made New South Wales King's Cup crews in 1978, 1979 and rowed to victory in those boats in 1978 and 1984. Between 1977 and 1981 in

colours Stride contested both the men's double scull and quadruple scull championship events at the

. He won national titles in the quad in 1978 and 1979 and in the double in 1980 and 1981. He contested the national quad sculls event in 1982 and the men's coxless pair title in 1984.

International representative rowing

In 1978 the entire New South Wales

winning crew was selected to race for Australia at the

in Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. That boat finished second in the heat behind West Germany the eventual silver medallists, third place in their repechage and fourth in the final being edged out by New Zealand. In 1984 Stride made his second and final Australian representative appearance when he was selected with Robert Booth to row Australia's coxless pair at the Los Angeles Olympics. They were eliminated in the repechage.198 Olympics
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stride, Jim 1955 births Living people Australian male rowers Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportsmen