Angus Dawson

Angus Dawson (born 30 Oct 2000) is an Australian representative rower. He is an Australian national champion and won an U23 world championship title in 2019. He has been selected as a 2021 Tokyo Olympian and is expected to row in the Australian men's eight.^[1][2]

Club and state rowing[]

Raised in rural South Australia at Dingabledinga, Dawson was schooled at St Peter's College were he took up rowing. His senior club rowing started from the Adelaide Rowing Club.^[3]

Dawson's state representative debut for South Australia came in 2017 when he was selected in the state youth eight to contest the Noel Wilkinson trophy at the Interstate Regatta.^[4] He was again selected in the South Australian youth eight in 2018.^[5] That year he won an U19 national title in the double scull with Mitchell Reinhard.^[6] In 2019 he was selected in the South Australian men's senior eight to contest the Kings Cup.^[7]

In 2020 Dawson studied at UC Berkeley and rowed in the Berkeley varsity eight.^[8] He returned to Australia due to Covid concerns and entered the Australian senior men's squad. In 2021 he again rowed in the South Australian King's Cup eight ^[9] and that year he won an open men's coxless pair national championship title with his South Australian team-mate Alexander Hill.^[10][11]

International representative rowing[]

Dawson made his Australian representative debut at the 2019 World Rowing U23 Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, USA when he was selected in the two seat of the Australian coxed four which rowed to victory and a world championship gold medal ^[12]

Following his return to Australia in 2021 and before national team selections for the delayed Tokyo Olympics, Dawson had forced his way into the Australian men's eight, which had qualified for the Olympics on 2019 international performances.^[13] In Tokyo the Australian men's eight placed fourth in their heat, fourth in the repechage and sixth in the Olympic A final.^[14]

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