Barclay Wade
{{Short description|Australian rower (1944–2021)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|4|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Sydney, Australia
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{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
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Barclay John Wade (5 April 1944 – 26 December 2021) was an Australian representative rower. His first national championship title and a Commonwealth Games bronze medal were won at age eighteen and two years later he competed in the men's double sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/barclay-wade-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418055828/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/barclay-wade-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Barclay Wade Olympic Results |accessdate=14 August 2018}}
Rowing career
Barclay Wade was educated at Shore School where he took up rowing. He rowed in the victorious Head of the River Shore first VIII of 1961 and while still at school began sculling from the Mosman Rowing Club.[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rower-profiles/wade-j-barclay Wade profile at Guerin Foster]
Just turned eighteen he competed in Haberfield Club colours at the inaugural Australian Rowing Championships of 1962 and won the first Australian title in a double scull with Ian Tutty.[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1962#m2x 1962 Autsn Championships] He was then selected in a double scull with Tasmania's Graeme Squires to compete at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. They won a bronze medal.[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/commonwealth-games/1962-perth 1962 Commonwealth Games] In 1963 he was the New South Wales state champion single sculler.
In 1964 he partnered up with Gary Pearce of the Balmain Rowing Club in a composite double and won the national title in the men's double scull at the second ever Australian Rowing Championships. This was a selection regatta for the Tokyo Olympics and Wade and Pearce were selected as the Olympic representative double. In Tokyo they finished 13th in the double sculls event.http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1964-Tokyo.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724183540/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1964-Tokyo.php |date=24 July 2018 }} Guerin-Foster History of Australian Rowing
He died on 26 December 2021, at the age of 77.{{cite web |title=Wade, J Barclay - Australian Rowing History |url=https://rowinghistory-aus.info/rower-profiles/wade-j-barclay |website=rowinghistory-aus.info}}
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Category:Australian male rowers
Category:Olympic rowers for Australia
Category:Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in rowing
Category:Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales
Category:People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School