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List of Australia's national representative rowers is a list of rowers who have represented Australia at the senior level at either World Rowing Championships,
Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
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or a Commonwealth Games. The list does not include rowers who have only represented at the junior or U23 level or only at a Trans-Tasman series or World Rowing Cups. In October 2015 Rowing Australia launched the McVilly-Pearce pin, named after
Cecil McVilly Cecil Leventhorpe McVilly MC, (3 August 1889 – 4 November 1964) was an Australian representative rower and WWI military officer. He was a three-time Australian champion sculler and the first sculler to represent Australia at an Olympic games ...
, Australia's first Olympic rowing representative and Bobby Pearce, the first Australian rower to win an Olympic gold. Every Australian senior level representative rower is to receive a specially numbered pin to commemorate the first time they were honoured with Australian selection for an international championship regatta. Accordingly, the McVilly-Pearce pin number series is a chronological sequence of the rowers who have represented Australia at the senior level.Australian Senior Team list as at April 2018
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