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Graham Gardiner
Graham Gardiner is an Australian former lightweight rower. He is a two-time World Champion. Club and state rowing Gardiner's commenced his senior rowing with the Glebe Rowing Club and competed in a men's junior 4+ at the 1979 Australian Rowing Championships. The following year he shifted to the Drummoyne Rowing Club in Sydney and won two national titles - the lightweight M2- with Clyde Hefer and the lightweight M4- with Hefer, Michael Smith and Graeme Wearne. In 1981 in those same two crews Gardiner again raced for those national titles but this time representing the Balmain Rowing Club and both to 2nd place. National representative rowing Gardiner was selected for Australian representative honours in a LM4- for the 1980 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel - a lightweight only championship being an Olympic year. With Hefer he'd vied for top national honours throughout 1980 against the Victorian pair of Charles Bartlett and Simon Gillett. New Australian National Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glebe Rowing Club
Glebe Rowing Club is the third-oldest rowing club in continuous operation on Sydney Harbour and was established in July 1879 in Blackwattle Bay Sydney, Australia. It has occupied its current location at the foot of Ferry St, Glebe since the club's inception. GRC is a community based club with a focus on novice, women's and social rowing and with a learn-to-row program. History The Glebe Club was founded with an open attitude in welcoming labourers as members unlike the other Sydney rowing clubs formed at that time – the Sydney Rowing Club and Mercantile. Glebe's first president was Sir George Wigram Allen, Speaker of the NSW Legislative Assembly and Glebe's first Mayor. Its first captain was Robert Clark, brother of Jim Clark, the Sydney's captain at that time. During the first ten years of the club's history it was the third most successful in Sydney winning 24 of the 260 races rowed between 1880 and 1890. In 1897 the shed at Blackwattle Bay and all the club's boats were destr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
