Malcolm Robertson (rower)
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| Nickname | Magic | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Geelong College | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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Malcolm Robertson is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an Australian national champion and won two bronze medals at World Rowing Championships.
Club and state rowing
[edit]Robertson was educated at Geelong College where he took up rowing. In 1975 in that school's first VIII he won the national schoolboy eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships.[1] Robertson joined Melbourne's Mercantile Rowing Club in 1976 from where he did his senior club rowing.[1]
Victorian state representation first came for Robertson in the 1975 youth eight which contested and won the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[2]
Robertson made the 1987 Victorian men's lightweight four competing for the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[3] He contested further Penrith Cups for Victoria in 1988 and 1990, achieving victories in both years.[4]
In Mercantile colours he raced in a junior eight at the 1976 Australian Rowing Championships finishing second. In 1977 he won a national championship in a men's lightweight eight. After a year off in 1979, he returned to racing in 1980 but struggled to make weight and was ill. He returned to a successful rowing career in 1987.[1] He won two national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1989 - the men’s lightweight four and the men’s lightweight pair.[1]
International representative rowing
[edit]Robertson made his Australian representative debut at the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in the Australian lightweight eight which won a bronze medal. The following year at the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen he was again in the lightweight eight for another bronze.[5]
Robertson's representative career finished in the Australian lightweight eight at the 1990 World Rowing Championships where they rowed to a fifth placing.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Robertson career at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ "1975 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ "1987 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ "1990 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b Robertson at World Rowing