David Cameron (rower)

David Cameron
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born 11 March 1974
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Rowing
Club Lower Clarence Rowing Club
Medal record
Representing  Australia
World Rowing Championships
1997 Aiguebelette M2+
Junior World Rowing Championships
1992 Montreal JM2-

David Allen Cameron (born 11 March 1974) is an Australian former rower. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and won a silver medals at both junior and senior World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing

Born in Maclean, New South Wales, Cameron's senior rowing was initially from the Lower Clarence Rowing Club in Maclean.[1]

In Lower Clarence club colours he contested and won the Australian national U23 men's single sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships.[2] in 1996, 1997 and 1998 he competed for the senior men's single sculls Australian championship.[3]

Cameron's state selection first came in 1996 when he was the New South Wales state representative single sculler who contested and won the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[4] He contested the President's Cup again in 1998 in New South Wales skyblue. In 1999 he was selected in the New South Wales men's eight to race for the King's Cup in the Interstate Regatta.[5]

International representative rowing

Cameron made his Australian representative debut at age eighteen at the 1992 Junior World Rowing Championships in Montreal in an Australian junior coxless pair in which he took second place and won a silver medal.[6]

In 1995 he was selected as Australia's single sculler to contest the 1995 U23 World Rowing Championships in Groningen. He finished in twelfth place.[6] For the 1996 Athens Olympics Cameron was Australia's selected single scull and coached by Harald Jahrling he competed and finished in thirteenth place.[6]

In 1997 at the World Championships in Aiguebelette he raced the Australian coxed pair with Nick McDonald-Crowley and steered by David Colvin to second place and Cameron's sole senior World Championship medal - a silver.[6] At the 1998 World Rowing Championships in Cologne, Cameron made his final Australian representative appearance when he rowed in the seven seat of the Australian eight which achieved a sixth-place finish.[6]

Personal

During his representative rowing career and in the ten years following, Cameron worked in Financial Services including roles at Westpac Bank, National Australia Bank and J.P. Morgan. In 2015 he moved into teaching and has taught at Newington College.[7]

Cameron has coached school and club rowing with coaching appointments in Sydney at The King's School (2001–2003), Newington College (since 2014) and Leichhardt Rowing Club (since 2015).[7] He has been an Australian Army reservist since 2014.[7]

Cameron married Australian Olympian alpine skier Zali Steggall in September 2002. They separated in mid-2007. They have two children from their marriage.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "David Cameron Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "National Championships - Australian Rowing History". rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "National Championships - Australian Rowing History". rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "1996 Interstate Championships - Australian Rowing History". rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "1999 Interstate Championships - Australian Rowing History". rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "David CAMERON". worldrowing.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 "Cameron LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Zali Steggall's heart on ice". The Daily Telegraph. 10 June 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
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