Scott Michael Brennan (born 9 January 1983) is an Australian

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gold medal-winning and national champion

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from

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. He has represented for Australia in rowing at three consecutive Olympic games.

Personal

Born in

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, Brennan took up rowing in 1995 whilst at

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in Hobart, where he eventually became captain of the school in 1998. He continued his rowing through Guilford Young College for years 11 and 12 of his schooling and again became captain of the school in 2000. He studied medicine at the

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and graduated in 2007 with honours. He married Olympic single scull rowing gold medallist

Kim Crow Kimberley Jean "Kim" Brennan (née Crow; born 9 August 1985) is a retired Australian rower. She is a sixteen-time national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medallist. Personal Crow was born in Melbourne ...

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on 30 December 2015. In January 2018, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child. Their son, Jude, was born later that year.

Rowing career

At the junior world representative level Brennan won silver in the single scull at the 2001 Junior World Championship and became the first Australian to have won gold in the single scull at the 2003 U/23 World Championship. At the 2004 rowing World Cup he won gold in the quad scull. Along with his longtime rowing partner

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Brennan has won numerous national titles in all sculling classes at the

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. Brennan's first Australian Olympic selection was for

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when he rowed in the Australian quad scull who won their B final. With

, Brennan won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the

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in Beijing, China. In March 2012 Brennan was selected to defend his Olympic title in the men's Double Scull with

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Crawshay at the

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. After a promising start to the campaign with a silver medal in the Lucerne World Cup, Brennan suffered a back injury immediately prior to the games but raced regardless, finishing in second place in the B final for an overall eighth place in the 2012 Olympic rankings. Brennan was unable to recover from this injury despite two years of intensive rehab and retired from the sport in 2015 to pursue a career in medicine. He leads an active community life outside of medicine and rowing and is a volunteer with Camp Quality.Aussies Crawshay and Brennan win double sculls gold

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, 16 August 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brennan, Scott 1983 births Living people Australian male rowers Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Australia Sportspeople from Hobart Olympic medalists in rowing People educated at St Virgil's College Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Sportsmen from Tasmania