Andrew Michelmore
{{short description|Australian rower}}
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| birth_name = Andrew Gordon Michelmore
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| years_active = 1972–1979
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| sport = Rowing
| club = Melbourne University Boat Club
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{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 1974 Lucerne | Lwt men's four}}
{{MedalBronze | 1975 Nottingham | Lwt men's four}}
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Andrew Gordon Michelmore, AO is an Australian lightweight rower. He won Australia's first rowing World Championship title – a gold medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne with the lightweight men's four.{{cite web |title= Andrew Michelmore |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/37736/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=13 November 2017}}
Club, varsity and state rowing
Michelmore's senior rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club (MUBC). At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1972 he won a national championship title in the lightweight eight.[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1972.html#ml2 1972 Australian Championships at Guerin Foster] He won another national title racing for MUBC in 1975 in a lightweight men's four.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-14.php#Mitchelmore |title=Michelmore career at Guerin Foster |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422202546/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-14.php#Mitchelmore |archive-date=22 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
He was selected in Victorian state representative lightweight fours to race the Penrith Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1974 and 1975. Those crews won the interstate championship on both occasions.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1975.php#ML4 |title=Penrith Cup 1975 at Guerin Foster |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017123854/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1975.php#ML4 |archive-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Michelmore won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1976 and stroked the Oxford University Boat Club to consecutive Boat Race victories in 1977 and 1978. He was President of the Oxford Rowing Club in both those years. On his return from England he resumed his Australian rowing career and in 1979 won a national title for MUBC in a lightweight eight, was selected for Victoria and won the Interstate Championship in a lightweight four and was picked to represent at a third World Championship.
National representative rowing
Michelmore was selected for Australian representative honours in a lightweight coxless four for the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne. That crew won Australia's first gold medal at a FISA World Rowing Championship.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1974-Lucerne.html |title=1974 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021191854/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1974-Lucerne.html |archive-date=21 October 2014 |url-status=dead }} The following year at Nottingham 1975 that same crew were selected to defend their title. They came third, taking the bronze medal and were the best performing Australian crew at those championships. They became the first Australian crew to win successive medals at any world championships or FISA championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1975-Nottingham.html |title=1975 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313203828/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1975-Nottingham.html |archive-date=13 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Following his Rhodes Scholarship and rowing success at Oxford, in 1979 he was selected for his third and final Australian representative crew in the men’s lightweight eight for Bled 1979. They placed sixth.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1979-Bled.html |title=1979 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511034940/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1979-Bled.html |archive-date=11 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Honours
Michelmore was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2018 for services to the mining industry.{{Cite It's an Honour |ausawardid=2000709 |date=26 January 2018 |recipient=Michelmore, Andrew Gordon |award=Officer of the Order of Australia
|postnominal=AO |citation=For distinguished service to the mining industry through leadership roles in establishing trade and investment links, and in resource sector standards of practice on environmental and safety issues. |accessdate= 8 November 2018}}
References
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Category:Australian male rowers
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Category:Australian Rhodes Scholars
Category:Officers of the Order of Australia
Category:Rowers from Melbourne
Category:Oxford University Boat Club rowers