Nicholas Baxter (born 26 July 1979) is an Australian former rower. He rowed in six New South Wales eights competing at Australia's King's Cup, was a national champion and a medallist at underage and senior World Championships.
State and club rowing
Baxter's senior rowing was from the
Sydney Rowing Club
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and later
UTS Haberfield Rowing Club
UTS Haberfield Rowing Club in Sydney was formed as Haberfield Rowing Club in 1925. It has occupied its current site on Port Jackson's, Iron Cove at Dobroyd Point since 1926. The club had a senior and lightweight Sydney premiership & national com ...
. At the 2001 Australian University Championships he rowed in a pair and a four for the
UNSW Rowing Club
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. In 2002 he and Zac Kirkham won the coxless pairs title at the Australian Universities Championship in UNSW black and gold.
He first made state selection for New South Wales in the 1998 youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the
Australian Rowing Championships
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. He rowed in the New South Wales youth eight again in 1999. In 2001 he was selected in the New South Wales senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He rowed in further King's Cup races for
New South Wales
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in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and rowed to a King's Cup victory in 2004.
International representative rowing
Baxter made his Australian representative debut in 2000 in an U23 men's eight who raced at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before contesting the 2000
World Rowing U23 Championships
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at Copenhagen where they took the silver medal.
In 2001 he raced in the senior men's eight at a World Rowing Cup and then at the
2001 World Rowing Championships
The 2001 World Rowing Championships were held from 19 to 26 August 2001 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Medal summary
Men
Non-Olympic classes
Women
Non-Olympic classes
Medal table
References
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in Lucerne to a seventh placing.
For the
2003 World Rowing Championships
The 2003 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 25 August to 1 September 2003 on the lake Idroscalo at Milan, Italy. The international rowing season usually ends with the World Championship regatta. Apart f ...
selectors first chose the Australian eight and then picked Baxter in a coxless four of New South Welshmen selected to be able to train together locally. With
James Chapman,
Stuart Welch
Stuart Thomas Welch (born 15 November 1977) is an Australian former representative rower who won medals at his two Olympic games appearances.
Club and state rowing
Born in Sydney, Welch was educated at Sydney Grammar School where he took up row ...
and
Stephen Stewart
Stephen John Stewart (born 7 March 1978) is an Australian former national representative rower, a national champion, dual Olympian and an Olympic medal winner.
Rowing brothers
Stephen's older twin brothers James Stewart and Geoff Stewart w ...
he rowed to a fourth placing in Milan.
In 2004 he raced in a coxless pair with Chapman at the 2004 World Rowing Cup. They placed eleventh and he did not compete at World Championships that year or again until 2007 when he was selected to the Australian coxless four.
That four raced at two World Rowing Cups in Europe before contesting the
2007 World Rowing Championships
The 2007 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 26 August to 2 September 2007 at Oberschleißheim Regatta Course near Munich, Germany.
Medal summary
Men's events
Non-Olympic classes
Women's events
No ...
. They missed the A final and finished last in the B final for an overall twelfth placing.
Baxter's final Australian representative appearance was in a coxed pair at
Linz 2008 rowed to a bronze medal with
Fergus Pragnell
Fergus Pragnell (born 17 September 1985) is an Australian former rower. He is a seven-time Australian King's Cup winner, an U23 World Champion and a medallist at senior World Championships.
State and club rowing
From Queanbeyan, New South Wales ...
and steered by
Hugh Rawlinson.
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/ref> The pair through came from a long way back in the field. They were in fifth position after the first quarter of the race and could not improve on this over the next 1000 metres. Heading into the final stages of the race Pragnell and Baxter kicked and passed the Italian and Polish crews. Poland had been leading the whole race but fatigued badly to finish fifth. Australia could not catch Canada or France and finished in a time of 7:09.30, roughly a boat and a half behind gold medallists France.
References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
Australian male rowers
Rowers from Sydney
World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Sportsmen from New South Wales