Kenneth Chan (rower)

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Kenny Chan
Personal information
Born10 January 1974
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
Achievements and titles
World finalsZagreb 2000
National finalsKing's Cup 1995-2001
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing Australia
World Rowing Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Zagreb LM8+

Kenneth Chan (born 10 Jan 1974) is an Australian representative rowing coxswain. He was an Australian champion and won a bronze medal at the 2000 World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing[]

Raised in Perth, Chan was educated at Trinity College, Perth where he took up coxing.

Chan was the prominent state representative coxswain for Western Australian for a number of years from 1995.[1] He coxed West Australian men's eights contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships every year from 1995 to 2001.[2] He steered the 1999 WA eight to a King's Cup victory.[3]

International representative rowing[]

Chan made his Australian representative debut in 2000 in the stern of the lightweight eight which contested and won gold at that year's World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne.[4] At that year's 2000 World Rowing Championships in Zagreb - a lightweight only regatta being an Olympic year - Chan steered the Australian lightweight eight.[4] In the heat they finished second behind the eventual gold medallists USA and won the repechage by half a length. In the final the Australians took the bronze behind a comfortable USA and then the British crew who had won their heat easily.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "1995 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  2. ^ "2001 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  3. ^ "1999 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. ^ a b Chan at World Rowing
  5. ^ "2000 World C'ships". Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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