Derek Chadwick

{{short description|Australian sportsman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|3|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Busselton, Western Australia

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| statsend = 1972

| years1 = 1959–1972

| club1 = East Perth

| games_goals1 = 269 (-)

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Derek Chadwick (born 21 March 1941) is an Australian former sportsman, playing both first-class cricket with Western Australia and Australian rules football for East Perth in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).

Chadwick was a right-handed opening batsman who made 4082 runs at 34.30 during his cricketing career, with 9 centuries. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1969-70. As a footballer he was a wingman and played a at-the-time club record 269 games for East Perth, winning their best and fairest award, the F.D. Book Medal twice. In 1964 he won a Simpson Medal for his performances with the Western Australian state team in tours of Melbourne and Adelaide, and was inducted into the WAFL Hall of Fame in 2004.{{cite web |title=Chadwick reflects on esteemed dual career |url=https://www.busseltonmail.com.au/story/1206369/chadwick-reflects-on-esteemed-dual-career/ |website=busseltonmail.com.au |date=27 December 2012 |access-date=23 July 2020}}{{cite web |title=HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Derek CHADWICK |url=http://www.wafootballhalloffame.com.au/inductees/2235-derek-chadwick |website=wafootballhalloffame.com.au |access-date=23 July 2020}}