Ian Edmunds
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Uni of Queensland Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Edmunds (born 25 August 1961 in Queensland, Australia) is an Australian former rower. He is an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a 1984 Olympic medalist.
Club and state rowing
[edit]Edmunds' senior rowing was from the University of Queensland Boat Club.
His first state selection to represent Queensland came in the 1981 youth eight which contested and won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[1]
In 1982 Edmunds was selected in the Queensland senior men's eight which contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[2] He made a further King's Cup appearance for Queensland in 1984.[3]
International representative rowing
[edit]Edmunds was first selected to Australian representation in 1982 in a coxed four who raced at the 1982 World Rowing U23 Championships in Vienna to a second place and a silver medal.[4]
In 1983 Edmunds secured the three seat of the Australian eight selected within a limited squad sent to the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg Germany.[4] 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 finished in third place for a bronze medal.[5]
The Australian eight selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was built around the national champion Mosman Rowing Club coxed four of Battersby, Muller and Evans.[6] Edmunds was selected in the five seat. The Australian eight finished third in the final winning bronze behind Canada and the USA.[4] It was Edmunds' last Australian representative appearance.
References
[edit]- ^ "1981 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "1982 Australian Championships". Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "1984 Australian Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ a b c Edmunds at World Rowing
- ^ "1983 World Championships". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "1984 Olympics". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
External links
[edit]- Ian Edmunds at World Rowing
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ian Edmunds". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Australian male rowers
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- People educated at Brisbane State High School
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Sportsmen from Queensland