Brett Hayman (born 3 May 1972 in
Melbourne
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) is an Australian three time world champion, a dual Olympian and an Australian national champion
rowing
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coxswain
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. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics steering the Australian men's
eight. He coxed Australian crews at every premier world rowing regatta from 1993 to 2000.
Club and state rowing
Hayman's senior coxing was initially from the Yarra Yarra Rowing Club in Melbourne and then the
Mercantile Rowing Club
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Club history
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. Later when he took an
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scholarship he rowed from the Daramalan Rowing Club in Canberra.
Hayman's first Victorian state representative call-up was to the 1991 Victorian youth
eight which contested the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the
Australian Rowing Championships
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. In 1995 he coxed the Victorian senior men's eight in the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. From 1997 when Hayman was at the
Australian Institute of Sport he coxed
ACT eights in the King's Cup, starting with the victorious ACT crew of 1997. He then steered the ACT King's Cup eights of 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003.
International representative rowing
Hayman's first Australian representative appearance was in the men's
coxed four
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at the
1993 World Rowing Championships
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Medal summary
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Women's events
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in Roudnice. That crew placed fifth as did Hayman's next representative boat, the coxed four who raced at the
1994 World Championships in Indianapolis. He was then in the stern of the Australian men's senior eight for
Tampere 1995.
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/ref> He was the incumbent senior Australian coxswain coming into the 1996 Olympic year and steered the men's senior eight at Atlanta 1996 to a sixth-place finish.
World Championship success came to Hayman in 1997 as cox of the men's lightweight eight at the 1997 World Championships in Aiguebelette. The Australians won a thrilling final by 0.03 seconds and only 1.5 lengths separated the field.
In 1998 Australia's prominent world class crew the Oarsome Foursome
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returned to elite rowing from the break that followed their 1996 Olympic success. At the 1998 Cologne World Championships they rowed in a number of combinations including coxed crews steered by Hayman. They won gold as a coxed four and Nick Green, James Tomkins and Hayman were also crowned World Champions in a coxed pair
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At the 1999 World Rowing Championships Hayman was Australia's senior coxswain and he steered the men's eight (which placed seventh) and the pair to fourth place.
In the 2000 Olympic year Hayman was again in the Australian eight. He steered the crew in both World Rowing Cup races in Europe in their lead up campaign as well as at the Henley Royal Regatta where they raced as an Australian Institute of Sport eight and won that year's Grand Challenge Cup
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.Australian Henley victories
/ref> Hayman's final Australian representative appearance was in the eight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
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. The Australian eight won their heat beating the eventual gold medallists Great Britain in a time faster than the final. In the final Australians started slowly requiring an almighty sprint home which they almost achieved. They won the silver Olympic medal with Hayman in the stern.
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1972 births
Living people
Australian male rowers
Rowers from Melbourne
Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Coxswains (rowing)
Olympic rowers for Australia
Olympic medalists in rowing
World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
ACT Academy of Sport alumni
20th-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)