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Nick Hudson (born 7 October 1983, in
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) is an Australian former rower. He was an U23 world champion, an Australian national champion and was a silver medallist at the 2009 World Championships.


Club and state rowing

Hudson was educated at
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where he took up rowing. He stroked the school's first VIII in 2000 to a 5th placing at the AAGPS Head of the River. The following year he was in the King's School's successful first VIII of 2001 – along with other future Australian representatives Matt Ryan and
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– which won at the AAGPS Head of the River. The crew went on to win the Barrington Cup at the National Championships and the
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at
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later that year. Hudson's senior club rowing was from the
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. Domestically while racing for his state,
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, Hudson has won the Noel F Wilkinson Cup for Youth Eights in 2003, stroking the crew to a win by almost five seconds. He made his Kings Cup debut for New South Wales in 2007 placing 2nd behind
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. Hudson returned to the New South Wales Kings Cup crew in 2009, recording a dominant victory by over five seconds. Hudson won his second Kings Cup in 2010 and was selected in the crew again in 2012, where New South Wales won, making Hudson a three-time winner of the event.


International representative rowing

Hudson first represented for Australia in 2003. He raced in a quad scull World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before contesting the Nations Cup (now the
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) in
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, Serbia. Hudson was in a quad scull with Eugene Arendsen, Henry Gundry and Tom Westgarth which won a gold medal. At the 2004
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Hudson was again a member of the Australian Quad Scull, this time winning the bronze medal. Five years later, Hudson made his debut in the Australian senior team, winning a silver medal at the
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in Poznan, Poland. Hudson again made the A Final the following year at the
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at
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, New Zealand. Racing in a men's double scull with
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, they placed fifth. At the
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in
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,
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, Hudson competed in the men's single scull giving him senior national representation across the full range of sculling boats in the space of just three years. He placed eighteenth in what would be his last World Championship appearance for Australia.Hudson at World Rowing
/ref> He was vying for a seat in the Australian men's eight for the
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but missed selection and raced in a coxless pair 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 ...
at the World Rowing Cups II and III in Europe that year and was a reserve for the Olympic heavyweight squad. In 2014 he competed in the double scull and the quad at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney, winning gold in the quad. Hudson announced his retirement from competitive rowing in March 2015, on the eve of the
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Nick 1983 births Sportsmen from New South Wales Rowers from Sydney Australian male rowers Living people World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia 21st-century Australian people