Tim Conrad (born 6 January 1951) is an Australian

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coach and former Olympian rower. He was a five time national champion and competed in the

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event at the

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Club and state rowing

Raised in Brisbane, Conrad attended

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where he took up rowing and matriculated in 1969. He studied architecture at the

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and rowed in the University's men's eight at the 1971 Australian Intervarsity Championships. Conrad first made state selection for Queensland in the men's senior eight which contested the 1972

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at the Interstate Regatta. In Sydney, Conrad rowed from firstly the

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and later the UNSW Rowing Club. He made state selection for New South Wales in the men's senior eight which contested the 1973

at the Interstate Regatta. He then rowed in the victorious New South Wales eights of 1974, 1975 and 1976. At the 1974

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Conrad raced for

in a coxed pair with Chris Shinners and in a coxed four both to second place. At the 1975 Australia Championships he won the coxless pair title in SUBC colours with Mosman's Malcolm Shaw. By 1976 he was rowing for UNSW Rowing Club and in a composite crew with

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, Rob Paver and

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of SRC he won the national coxed four title.

International representative rowing

Conrad made a representative debut for Great Britain in a men's coxless pair which raced at the 1973 European Championships in Moscow and placed eighth overall. His pair partner

Peter Shakespear Peter Shakespear (born 27 September 1946) is an Australian rower. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics. Shakespear is married to Wilma Shakespear Wilma Joyce Shakespear (born 4 March 1943), previously kno ...

was also an Australian by birth who would like Conrad, row for Australia.Conrad at World Rowing
/ref> The Australian men's eight for the

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was mostly that year's King's Cup winning New South Wales crew excepting Malcolm Shaw in the two seat and Brian Richardson at bow. With Conrad rowing at six they commenced their Olympic campaign with a heat win in a new world record time and progressed to the final. In the heat Shaw suffered a severe back injury (a collapsed vertebra) which saw him out of the eight and replaced by Shakespear, the reserve. In the final the Australians finished fifth.

Coaching

Conrad commenced a long coaching career in 1978 with a University of Queensland crew at the 1978 Australian Intervarsity Championships. He coached at Sydney Rowing Club, at the University of Queensland and was in charge of various Queensland state representative crews for a number of years. By 2012 he was the Director of Rowing at the Queensland Academy of Sport. Tim coached his son

Sam Conrad Sam Conrad (born 27 October 1980 in New South Wales) is an Australian former representative rower. He was a national champion, a world champion and an Olympian like his father and grandfather. Rowing pedigree Conrad's grandfather Maurice Grac ...

who rowed for Australia, won a 2005 World Championship in a coxed pair and held a seat in the Australian men's eight from 2006 to 2008, rowing in that crew at the 2008 London Olympics.Sam Conrad at Corporate Olympics
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Conrad, Tim 1951 births Living people Australian male rowers Olympic rowers of Australia Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Brisbane People educated at Brisbane State High School