Gavin Thredgold
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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing }}
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Gavin Thredgold (born 6 October 1961) is an Australian former rowing coxswain and coach. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a medalist at Olympic and world championships.
State and club rowing
Thredgold was educated at Pulteney Grammar School where he took up rowing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au/assets/Uploads/OI-8.pdf |title=Old Pulteney Scholar |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-date=31 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331060011/http://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au/assets/Uploads/OI-8.pdf |url-status=dead }} His senior club rowing was from the Port Adelaide Rowing Club.
He was first selected for South Australia in the 1979 youth eight which contested the Noel Wilkinson trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1979.php#MYth |title=1979 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826080725/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1979.php#MYth |archive-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead }} In 1980 he again steered the South Australian youth eight.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1980.php#MYth |title=1980 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706191240/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1980.php#MYth |archive-date=6 July 2018 |url-status=dead }} In 1982 he was selected to cox the South Australian senior men's eight who raced and won the 1982 King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1982.php#M8 |title=1982 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927055717/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1982.php#M8 |archive-date=27 September 2018 |url-status=dead }} He was in the stern of another successful South Australian King's Cup eight in 1983{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1983.php#M8 |title=1983 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018161830/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1983.php#M8 |archive-date=18 October 2018 |url-status=dead }} and then to a second place in 1984. Then in 1985 and 1986 he was the coach of the South Australian King's Cup eights.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1986.php#M8 |title=1986 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706191427/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1986.php#M8 |url-status=dead }}
International representative rowing
Thredgold made his Australian representative debut in a coxed four which contested the 1982 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne. They finished in overall seventh place.
The following year he was selected in the stern of the men's senior eight selected within a limited squad sent to the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg Germany. The eight performed well in lead up regattas at Vichy, Ratzeburg and Nottingham. In the final at the World Championships the Australian crew drew a bad lane and lost the benefit of the tail breeze however they raced a strong second 1000m and Thredgold steered that eight to a world championship bronze medal.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/gavin-threadgold?id=26308 Thredgold at World Rowing]
In the 1984 Olympic year half of the rowers in that 1983 eight - the national champion Mosman four of Evans, Muller, Hefer and Battersby - plus Thredgold were selected in the Australian men's eight to contest the 1984 Summer Olympics. They rowed to a bronze medal in Los Angeles behind the Canadian and USA boats and beat out a formidable New Zealand crew for third place.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1984-LosAngeles.php |title=1984 Olympics |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702045754/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1984-LosAngeles.php |archive-date=2 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
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- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/gavin-thredgold-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104172332/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/gavin-thredgold-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-04}}
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Category:Australian male rowers
Category:Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Category:Australian coxswains (rowing)
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)