David England
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David England (born 25 June 1956) is an Australian coxswain, coach and rowing administrator. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships.
Club and state rowing
England senior club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-6.php#England |title=England career at Guerin Foster |access-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528051816/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-6.php#England |archive-date=28 May 2018 |url-status=dead }} In Melbourne Uni colours he contested and won the national lightweight eight title twice at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1972 and 1979.
In 1974, 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 Australian Rowing Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1974.php#ML4 |title=1977 Interstate Regatta |access-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717153921/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1974.php#ML4 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |url-status=dead }} He raced in further victorious Penrith Cup fours for Victoria in 1978 and 1979. He coxed the Victorian men's eight contesting the King's Cup at Interstate Regattas in 1975, 1976, and 1980, winning the King's Cup on that last attempt.
At the conclusion of his Australian competitive career England's professional career took him overseas. From 1984 to 93 he was an active member of the Rowing Club within Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and from 1993 to 2001 a competitor at the Walton Rowing Club in England.
International representative rowing
England made his Australian representative debut at the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in the Australian lightweight eight which won a bronze medal. Then at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled he was again in the lightweight eight when the finished in sixth place.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/david-england?id=3075 D England at World Rowing]
England was in the stern of the Australian heavyweight eight selected to compete at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. That crew finished in overall fifth place.
Coaching and rowing administration
England was coaching before his competitive coxing career had ended. He coached a Victorian state representative women's four to victory in the Interstate Regatta in 1978. He coached Victorian lightweight men's fours to victory in 1979 and 1984. In 1978, he co-coached a Victorian composite women's eight to a national championship victory and he repeated that feat in 2011 with a MUBC women's eight.
He was the Finance Director of Rowing Australia from 2007 to 2009 and then was a board member of Rowing Australian for a period from 2010.
References
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External links
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Category:Australian male rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Category:Rowers from Melbourne
Category:Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Category:Australian coxswains (rowing)
Category:Olympic rowers for Australia