Shane Thomas Broad (born 21 August 1974) is an Australian politician; a five-time national champion and Australian representative rower; and an agricultural scientist.

Early life

Broad grew up on a farm at Gawler, attended Ulverstone Primary School, Ulverstone High School and

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. He was also an exchange student to the

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with AFS.

Club and state rowing

Broad started rowing at age 14 at the Ulverstone Rowing Club in north west Tasmania. When attending university in Hobart he moved to the Huon Rowing Club at Franklin in southern Tasmania, where most of his senior rowing was based. He was selected and rowed in Tasmanian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the

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from 1995 to 2003. Those Tasmanian fours were victorious in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

International representative rowing

Broad was in the Australian lightweight rowing squad and competed at

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from 2000 to 2003. He made his Australian representative debut in the Australian men's lightweight eight at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. Later that year at the

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, he won a bronze medal in the three seat of the lightweight men's eight. In 2001 he raced in a lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing Cup IV in Munich and then at the

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in Lucerne he doubled-up in the lightweight eight and in a coxless four. Both boats finished outside of medal contention.S Broad at World Rowing
/ref> In 2002 he rowed with Matt Russell in the Australian lightweight coxless pair. They competed at the World Rowing Cup III and then at the

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in Seville where they finished in overall ninth place. At the

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, he won silver in the lightweight men's

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. It was his final national representative appearance.

Professional career

Broad worked as an agricultural scientist for the

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Political career

Broad was a councillor on the Central Coast Council. He ran as a Labor candidate for Braddon at the

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and 2014 Tasmanian state elections, but was not elected. When state Labor leader

Bryan Green Bryan Alexander Green (born 30 June 1957) is a former Australian politician. He was the leader of the parliamentary Labor Party in Tasmania from 2014 to 2017, and a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon from 1 ...

resigned from politics in March 2017, the Tasmanian Electoral Commission conducted a recount of the 2014 ballot papers excluding Green, and declared Broad elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 4 April.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Broad, Shane 1974 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Tasmanian local councillors Australian agriculturalists Australian male rowers University of Tasmania alumni Academic staff of the University of Tasmania World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia 21st-century Australian politicians Sportsmen from Tasmania