Mark Doyle (rower)
{{Short description|Australian rower (born 1963)}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Mark Doyle
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| full_name = Marcus Andrew Doyle
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|29 May 1963}}
| birth_place = Melbourne, Australia
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| education =
| alma_mater = Xavier College
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| years_active = 1982–1988
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| height = 193 cm
| weight = 193 cm / 91 kg
| nationals = King's Cup 1982-1988
| sport = Rowing
| club = Mercantile Rowing Club
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's rowing }}
{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 1986 Nottingham | M8+}}
{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}
{{MedalGold | 1986 Edinburgh | Eight }}
{{MedalBronze | 1986 Edinburgh | Coxed Four }}
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Marcus Andrew "Mark" Doyle (born 29 May 1963) is an Australian former national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.
Club and state rowing
Doyle was born in Melbourne and commenced his rowing career at Xavier College. His senior rowing was with Mercantile Rowing Club where his father Brian Doyle was a club stalwart and coach.
Doyle represented Victoria at the Australian Rowing Championships in the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship – the King's Cup on six occasions from 1982 to 1988. He was in consecutive winning Victorian crews from 1985 to 1988.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-5.php#MDoyle |title=Doyle Career at Guerin Foster |access-date=4 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925180714/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-5.php#MDoyle |archive-date=25 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}
In Mercantile colours he contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on various occasions. He raced for the coxed four title in 1983,[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1981.html#m2 1981 Australian Championships] and both the men's pair and coxed four in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1982.html#m2 1982 Australian Championships] He won the 1986 Australian coxed four championship in a Mercantile crew with his older brother David.[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1986-1.html#m2 1986 Australian Championships]
International representative rowing
Doyle's first national representative selection was to the 1982 Match des Seniors in Vienna, Austria – the equivalent at the time of today's World Rowing U23 Championships. Doyle rowed in the coxless pair with his brother David to a gold medal victory.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-u23-championships/1982-Vienna.php |title=Vienna 1982 |access-date=28 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429024627/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-u23-championships/1982-Vienna.php |archive-date=29 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Doyle's first senior representative selection was to 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England. He rowed in the two seat of the victorious Australian men's eight. It was Australia's first and only World Championship title in the men's VIII.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1986-Nottingham.html |title=1986 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=28 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711034429/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1986-Nottingham.html |archive-date=11 July 2018 |url-status=dead }} That same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, in that same crew Doyle won gold in the Australian men's VIII. Doyle also rowed in a coxed four to a bronze medal at those same games.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/commonwealth-games/1986-Edinburgh.php |title=1986 Commonwealth Games |access-date=29 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428181631/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/commonwealth-games/1986-Edinburgh.php |archive-date=28 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
At the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen Doyle was again in the five seat of Australian eight. That crew placed fourth.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/mark-doyle?id=14603 Mark Doyle at World Rowing] For the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Doyle rowed in the five seat of the men's eight to a fifth placing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1988-Seoul.php |title=1988 Olympics at Guerin Foster |access-date=28 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427184251/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1988-Seoul.php |archive-date=27 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{Olympics.com}}
- {{AOC profile}}
{{World champions – Men's eight}}
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Category:Australian male rowers
Category:Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Category:Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Category:Olympic rowers for Australia
Category:Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
Category:Rowers from Melbourne