Peter Roland Waddington (13 January 1937 - 24 June 2022) was an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the

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and won two medals at the

1958 Commonwealth Games The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18–26 July 1958. Thirty-five nations sent a total of 1,130 athletes and 228 officials to the Cardiff Games ...

Club and state rowing

Waddington took up rowing at

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(Shore) where he was educated from 1949-195
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His senior club rowing was in Sydney from the

Leichhardt Rowing Club Leichhardt Rowing Club formed in 1886 is one of the oldest rowing clubs in Sydney, Australia. The clubhouse has occupied sites on Port Jackson's, Iron Cove at Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt since 1886. Leichhardt is an all-level competiti ...

.Waddington Profile at Austn Rowing History
/ref> Waddington's first state selection was as a reserve in the 1956 New South Wales state representative men's senior eights contesting the

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at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed in the 1959 and 1960 New South Wales King's Cup eights stroking the 1959 NSW eight crew to victory.

International representative rowing

Selection racing for the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games was conducted in January 1958 and New South Wales oarsmen and combinations dominated. The New South Wales eight was selected in toto to race as the Australian eight with Waddington in the six seat. In Cardiff the eight rowed to a silver medal and four of the crew with Waddington seated at three also raced as a coxed four and took a bronze medal. For the

1960 Rome Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

the Australian eight was the winning King's Cup West Australian eight. A coxed four was selected as the fourth priority boat and a New South Wales four was picked with Waddington in the three seat. In Rome they were the only Australian crew to make the Olympic final and finished in fifth place.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Waddington, Peter 1937 births 2022 deaths Australian male rowers Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Rowers from Sydney Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Rowers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from New South Wales People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School