Shane Broad
{{Short description|Australian politician, rower, and agricultural scientist}}
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| office = Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Braddon
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| birth_place = Burnie, Tasmania, Australia
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| party = Labor Party
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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing }}
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{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 2000 Zagreb | LM8+}}
{{MedalSilver | 2003 Milan | LM4x}}
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Shane Thomas Broad (born 21 August 1974) is an Australian politician; a five-time national champion and Australian representative rower; and an agricultural scientist.
Early life
Broad grew up on a farm at Gawler, attended Ulverstone Primary School, Ulverstone High School and Don College. He was also an exchange student to the Faroe Islands with AFS.
Club and state rowing
Broad started rowing at age 14 at the Ulverstone Rowing Club in north west Tasmania. When attending university in Hobart he moved to the Huon Rowing Club at Franklin in southern Tasmania, where most of his senior rowing was based.
He was selected and rowed in Tasmanian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships from 1995 to 2003.
Those Tasmanian fours were victorious in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2002.php#ML4 2002 Australian Championships]
International representative rowing
Broad was in the Australian lightweight rowing squad and competed at World Rowing Championships from 2000 to 2003.{{cite web |title=Shane Broad |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/1424/results/broad-shane |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=4 April 2017}} He made his Australian representative debut in the Australian men's lightweight eight at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. Later that year at the 2000 World Rowing Championships in Zagreb, he won a bronze medal in the three seat of the lightweight men's eight.{{cite web |title=House of Assembly Members Inaugural Speech |url=https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/HA/Inaugural/ISBroadShane.html |accessdate=14 April 2023 |publisher=Parliament of Tasmania}}
In 2001 he raced in a lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing Cup IV in Munich and then at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne he doubled-up in the lightweight eight and in a coxless four. Both boats finished outside of medal contention.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/shane-broad?id=1424 S Broad at World Rowing] In 2002 he rowed with Matt Russell in the Australian lightweight coxless pair. They competed at the World Rowing Cup III and then at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville where they finished in overall ninth place.
At the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan, he won silver in the lightweight men's quad scull. It was his final national representative appearance.{{cite web |title= (LM4x) Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2003-world-championships/lightweight-mens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=17 November 2017}}
Professional career
Broad worked as an agricultural scientist for the University of Tasmania.{{cite news|title=Tasmanian Labor leader's preferred candidate, Shane Broad, ahead in Braddon recount|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-03/shane-broad-looks-set-to-win-braddon-recount/8412310|accessdate=4 April 2017|work=ABC News|date=4 April 2017}}
Political career
Broad was a councillor on the Central Coast Council. He ran as a Labor candidate for Braddon at the 2010 and 2014 Tasmanian state elections, but was not elected. When state Labor leader Bryan Green resigned from politics in March 2017, the Tasmanian Electoral Commission conducted a recount of the 2014 ballot papers excluding Green, and declared Broad elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 4 April.{{cite news|title=Braddon Recount Result|url=https://www.vision6.com.au/em/message/email/view.php?id=899357&u=84586&k=YH5DeUVhUMUi5gUd32Rqbg13XshHrcwcvik7ihLXkV0|accessdate=4 April 2017|publisher=Tasmanian Electoral Commission|date=4 April 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{Official|http://www.shanebroad.com.au/}}
- {{Cite Tas Parliament |id=BroadS782 |name=Shane Thomas Broad}}
- {{FISA|1424|Shane Broad}}
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Category:Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania
Category:Tasmanian local councillors
Category:Australian agriculturalists
Category:Australian male rowers
Category:University of Tasmania alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Tasmania
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia