Geoffrey ReesSport |
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Melbourne University Boat Club |
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Geoffrey Rees is an Australian lightweight rower – a national champion and a world champion. He won Australia's first rowing World Championship title – a gold medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne in a lightweight men's four.[1]
Club and state rowing
Rees' senior rowing was with the Melbourne University Boat Club.
At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1975 he won a national championship title in the lightweight coxless four. He repeated that feat in 1977 and 1978. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1978 he also won a national title in the lightweight eight and did so again the following year.
Rees was selected in Victorian state representative lightweight fours to race the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within theAustralian Rowing Championships on six occasions between 1973 and 1979. Those crews won the interstate championship from 1973 to 1975 and in 1977 & 78.[2]
National representative rowing
Rees was selected for Australian representative honours in a lightweight coxless four for the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne. That crew won Australia's first gold medal at a FISA World Rowing Championship.[3]
The following year at Nottingham 1975 that same crew were selected to defend their title. They came third, taking the bronze medal and were the best performing Australian crew at those championships. They became the first Australian crew to win successive medals at any world championships or FISA championships.[4]
Rees was also selected in Australia lightweight fours for Amsterdam 1977 and Lake Karapiro 1978 taking silver and bronze, respectively. His final Australian representative appearance on the international stage was in the men's lightweight eight who finished sixth at the 1979 World Rowing Championships.[5]
References
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FISA championships |
- 1974: (Campbell Johnstone, Andrew Michelmore, Geoffrey Rees, Colin Smith)
- 1975: (Francis Pelegri, Michel Picard, André Coupat, André Picard)
- 1976: (André Picard, Michel Picard, André Coupat, Francis Pelegri)
- 1977: (André Picard, Michel Picard, André Coupat, Francis Pelegri)
- 1978: (Michael Raduner, Thomas von Weissenfluh, Pierre Zentner, Pierre Kovacs)
- 1979: (Ian Wilson, Stuart Wilson, Colin Barratt, Nicholas Howe)
- 1980: (Graham Gardiner, Charles Bartlett, Clyde Hefer, Simon Gillett)
- 1981: (Graham Gardiner, Charles Bartlett, Clyde Hefer, Simon Gillett)
- 1982: (Marco Romano, Daniele Boschin, Paolo Martinelli
Pasquale Aiese)
- 1983: (Alberto Molina Castillo, Luis María Moreno Perpiñá, José María de Marco Pérez, Juan María Altuna Muñoa)
- 1984: (Fernando Molina Castillo, José María de Marco Pérez, Luis María Moreno Perpiñá, Alberto Molina Castillo)
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Official world championships |
- 1985: (Alwin Otten, Frank Rogall, Thomas Jaekel, Wolfgang Birkner)
- 1986: (Franco Pantano, Dario Longhin, Nerio Gainotti, Mauro Torta)
- 1987: (Thomas Palm, Erik Ring, Gerd Meyer, Sebastian Franke)
- 1988: (Mauro Torta, Dario Longhin, Massimo Lana, Nerio Gainotti)
- 1989: (Klaus Altena, Stephan Fahrig, Michael Buchheit, Bernhard Stomporowski)
- 1990: (Klaus Altena, Michael Buchheit, Stephan Fahrig, Bernhard Stomporowski)
- 1991: (Christopher Bates, Toby Hessian, Tom Kay, Carl Smith)
- 1992: (Christopher Bates, Toby Hessian, Tom Kay, Carl Smith)
- 1993: (Thomas Beetham, Matthew Collins, Chris Kerber, Jonathan Moss)
- 1994: (Eskild Ebbesen, Victor Feddersen, Niels Henriksen, Thomas Poulsen)
- 1995: (Carlo Gaddi, Leonardo Pettinari, Andrea Re, Ivano Zasio)
- 1997: (Thomas Ebert, Thomas Poulsen, Eskild Ebbesen, Victor Feddersen)
- 1998: (Eskild Ebbesen, Thomas Ebert, Victor Feddersen, Thomas Poulsen)
- 1999: (Eskild Ebbesen, Thomas Ebert, Victor Feddersen, Thomas Poulsen)
- 2001: (Sebastian Sageder, Bernd Wakolbinger, Wolfgang Sigl, Martin Kobau)
- 2002: (Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Mølvig, Eskild Ebbesen)
- 2003: (Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Mølvig, Eskild Ebbesen)
- 2005: (Franck Solforosi, Jérémy Pouge, Jean-Christophe Bette, Fabien Tilliet)
- 2006: (Huang Zhongming, Wu Chongkui, Lin Zhang, Tian Jun)
- 2007: (Richard Chambers, James Lindsay-Fynn, Paul Mattick, James Clarke)
- 2009: (Matthias Schömann-Finck, Jost Schömann-Finck, Jochen Kühner, Martin Kühner)
- 2010: (Richard Chambers, Paul Mattick, Rob Williams, Chris Bartley)
- 2011: (Anthony Edwards, Samuel Beltz, Ben Cureton, Todd Skipworth)
- 2013: (Kasper Winther Jørgensen, Jacob Larsen, Jacob Barsøe, Morten Jørgensen)
- 2014: (Kasper Winther Jørgensen, Jacob Larsen, Jacob Barsøe, Morten Jørgensen)
- 2015: (Lucas Tramèr, Simon Schürch, Simon Niepmann, Mario Gyr)
- 2017: (Federico Duchich, Leone Barbaro, Lorenzo Tedesco, Piero Sfiligoi)
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