Phillip Gardiner (born 1952) is an Australian former representative lightweight

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. He was an eight-time Australian national champion and won two bronze medals at

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. He made ten appearances for Australia at World Rowing Championships over the seventeen-year period from 1977 to 1994.

Club and state rowing

Gardiner was raised in Sydney and took up rowing as a coxswain in 1961 at the Glebe Rowing Club. He coxed a Glebe men's junior four at the 1970

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. Gardiner relocated to Melbourne and joined the Melbourne University Boat Club in 1977 in an effort to make the Australian lightweight eight. In Melbourne Uni colours he contested and won the national lightweight eight title twice at the

in 1981 and 1985. In 1979 he first made state selection for Victoria in the men's lightweight four which contested and won the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the

. He raced in further Penrith Cup fours for Victoria in 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1992 always in the bow seat. He saw victories in those crews in 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1990.

International representative rowing

Gardiner made his Australian representative debut at the

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in Amsterdam in the Australian lightweight eight which won a bronze medal. The following year at the

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in Copenhagen he was again in the lightweight eight for another bronze.Gardiner at World Rowing
/ref> He made the Australian men's lightweight eight on four further occasions and raced in that boat at Bled 1979, Montreal 1984, Hazewinkel 1985 and Lake Barrington 1990. He contested the 1981 World Rowing Championships in a lightweight

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, the

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in Australia's lightweight four and the

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in a lightweight pair.

Rowing palmares

* 1981

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Men's Lightweight Eight bow - First * 1985

Men's Lightweight Four bow – First * 1977 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship emergency * 1979 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First * 1980 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Third * 1983 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship emergency * 1984 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First * 1985 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow – First * 1986 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First * 1987 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Second * 1988 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First * 1990 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First * 1992 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Second *

– Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Bronze *

– Men's Lightweight Eight three seat – Bronze * 1979 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Sixth * 1980 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Four reserve * 1981 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Double Scull bow – Eleventh *

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– Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Tenth * 1985 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight two seat – Fifth *

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– Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Fifth *

– Men's Lightweight Four bow – Eighth *

– Men's Lightweight Pair bow - Eighth

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner, Phillip Australian male rowers Living people World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia 1952 births 20th-century Australian people Rowers from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales