Jason Day (born 28 November 1970) is an Australian

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who competed at three

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Club and state rowing

Day commenced rowing with the Bendigo Rowing Club on their 500m Lake Waroona home water. His later senior club rowing when in elite Australian training programs was from the

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in Sydney. Day first made state selection for Victoria in 1993 to contest the President's Cup - the Interstate single sculls title within the

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. He place fourth that year. He contested further President's Cups in 1994, 1998 and 2001. He won that national title in 1994.

International representative rowing

Day's national representative debut came in 1988 when he was selected as Australia's single sculls entrant for the 1988

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in Milan. He came second at the world junior championship and won a silver medal.Day at World Rowing
/ref> In 1990 aged nineteen he was elevated to the Australian senior squad and into the quad scull. He raced in the quad at the

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in Lake Barrington to a seventh-place finish. The following year he was selected to row the coxless pair with Richard Powell. They finished fifth at the

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in Vienna. In the 1992 Olympic year Day and Powell combined with Hamish McGlashan and Robin Bakker to row Australia's quad scull. Day stroked the crew. They failed to make the A final and finished in overall ninth place. Day carried on rowing at the elite world level in 1993 and raced in a double scull at the

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with the stalwart Australian champion sculler

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. They won their heat but a bad row in the semi-final had them finish fourth and sent to the B final which they won, for an overall seventh-place finish. In 1994 he raced as the Australian single sculls representative at the World Championships in Indianapolis. He finished fifteenth overall. In 1995 Day and Ron Snook joined Bo Hanson and

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who were continuing in the Australian quad scull. They finished in eight place at the

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in Tampere. The 1996 Olympic year saw Day picked to again row Australia's double scull with

. They rowed to an eighth-place finish. Following a long post-Olympics break from national representation, Day along with

, stepped back into the Australian quad in 1999 with

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and Peter Hardcastle who'd been constant in that boat from 1998, to commence their Olympic campaign for

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. They raced at a World Rowing Cup in 1999 and then at the

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in St Catharines they battled through the preliminaries placing third in their heat, winning their repechage, coming third in their semi-final (facing the ultimate gold and silver medalists Germany and Ukraine) and then repeating the semi-final result with a third place and a bronze medal in the final.1999 World C'ships
/ref> In the 2000 Olympic year they raced at two World Rowing Cups before coming to the

where they made the final and finished in fourth place. Although he'd made three Olympic appearances, Day's Australian representative career was not complete. He returned to the green and gold in 2003 at the World Rowing Cup III as a single sculler. Then in 2005 for the fourth time in his long national career he stepped back into the Australian quad scull, now with Craig Jones Chris Morgan and Trent Collins. In his last international campaign Day stroked the quad through a heat, repechage and semi to a fifth place in the B final for an overall eleventh placing at the

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in Gifu Japan.

References

External links

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Profile
at Australian Olympic Committee *Beijing 2008 with Melissa Lawton: https://www.thebeijinger.com/gallery/2008/09/17/olympic-rower-jason-day-and-melissa-lawton-photo-gold-one {{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Jason 1970 births Living people Australian male rowers Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia 20th-century Australian people People from Kerang Sportsmen from Victoria (state)