- Chris Morgan (rower)
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Chris Morgan (rower)Men's rowing Competitor for 
AustraliaWorld Championships Gold 2010 Coxed pair Gold 2011 Quad scull Chris Morgan (born 15 December 1982[1]) is a world champion[2] rower from Adelaide, South Australia.
Morgan began his athletic career as a competitive walker, however he took up rowing after taking part in a rowing machine (ergo) competition held by the Adelaide University Boat Club during the University of Adelaide Orientation Week. After winning the competition with the fastest time, Morgan was asked to join the Boat Club and joined the "Learn to Row" program, shortly before beginning his competitive rowing career.[3][4]
During Morgan's first season of rowing in 2003/04, Morgan won a gold medal in the World University Games, and was later selected for the Australian rowing team in 2005, training with the Australian Institute of Sport.
Morgan competed in the Men's Quadruple Scull event for the Australian Olympic team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. His crew won the heat in a world's best time of 5:36.20,[4][5][6][7] beating the previous fastest time, set by Poland, by a second. The Australians finished fourth in the final.[8]
In 2010, Morgan won the Australian National Single Scull Championship,[9] becoming the first South Australian to do so in 40 years.[10] In November, he won the World Championship coxed pair with pair partner Dominic Grimm and coxswain David Webster at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.[2]
In an upset win, Morgan rowing in the Australian heavy weight men's quad scull defeated the German crew to win gold at the 2011 World Rowing Championships. Due to a costly mistake in the German boat the Australian crew took the lead in the last few metres of the race to take out first place. [11]
References
- ^ http://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/hp_athletes_profiles_morgan-c.shtm
- ^ a b http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/gold-medal-row-for-australian-coxed-pair-at-world-championships/story-e6frep5o-1225948760026
- ^ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/7901/news7965.html
- ^ a b http://www.smh.com.au/news/rowing/skol-to-scull-rower-living-dream/2008/08/12/1218306897972.html
- ^ http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/4878651/mens-quad-scull-set-world-best-time
- ^ http://www.watoday.com.au/news/rowing/aussie-scullers-break-world-record/2008/08/10/1218306659192.html
- ^ http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/quads-catapulted-into-medal-contention/story-e6freyp0-1111117157859
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/rowing/latest_results_/default.stm
- ^ http://roms.rowingaustralia.com.au/FileDownload.aspx?id=02adb938-a7b5-41bd-abb8-f769fa79f009
- ^ http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1970.html#m1x
- ^ http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/australia-claims-record-medal-haul-at-world-rowing-championships-after-gold-in-mens-quad-sculls/story-e6frf56c-1226129074368
1962:
(Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günther Jordan, cox. Frank Steinhäuser) • 1966: 
(Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox. P. de Maan) • 1970: 
(Ştefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox. Ladislau Lovrenschi) • 1974: 
(Wladimir Eschinow, Nikolai Iwanow, cox. Alexander Lukianow) • 1975: 
(Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox. Bernd Fritsch) • 1977: 
(Theodor Mrankov, Dimitar Janakiev, cox. Stefan Stoikov) • 1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox. Olaf Beyer) • 1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox. Georg Spohr) • 1981: 
(Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1983: (Ulrich Diessner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor) • 1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1986: 
(Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney) • 1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox. Giuseppe Di Capua) • 1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox. Garry Herbert) • 1994: 
(Igor Boraska, Tihomir Frankovic, cox. Milan Razov) • 1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox. Antonio Cirillo) • 1996: 
(Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox. Christophe Tellier) • 1997: 
(Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox. Nicholas Anderson) • 1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox. Brett Hayman) • 1999: (Jim Neil, Philip Henry, cox. Nicholas Anderson) • 2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox. Nicholas Anderson) • 2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox. Neil Chugani) • 2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox. Claus Müller-Gattermann) • 2003: (Matthew Rich, Daniel Beery, cox. Andrew Kelly) • 2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox. Luigi Longobardi) • 2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox. Marc Douez) • 2006: 
(Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox. Ivan Ninkovic) • 2007: 
(Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox. Daniel Trojanowski) • 2008: 
(Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox. Mark Laidlaw) • 2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox. Marcus McElhenney) • 2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox. David Webster) Categories:- Living people
- Olympic rowers of Australia
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- 1982 births
- Australian rowing biography stubs
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