Tim Wright (rower)

Tim Wright

Personal information

Born

18 February 1973

Sport

Rowing

Club

Wendouree Ballarat Rowing Club

Medal record

Men's rowing

Representing Australia
World Rowing Championships
	1997 Aiguebelette	LM8+
U23 World Championships
	U23 1995 Groningen	LM4-

Tim Wright (born 18 February 1973) is an Australian former world champion lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette with the lightweight men's eight.^[1]

Club and state rowing

Wright took up rowing at Ballarat High School as a coxswain. His senior rowing was from the Wendouree-Ballarat Rowing Club.^[2]

Richards rowed in Victorian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships in 1997 and 1999.^[2]

International representative rowing

Wright first represented Australia in the lightweight coxless at the 1994 World Rowing U23 Championships in Paris where the Australians finished fourth.^[3] The following year at Groningen in The Netherlands he again raced at the U23 World Championships in the lightweight coxless four and they won the silver medal.^[3]

In 1997 he made his debut in an Australian senior crew seated in the bow of the men's lightweight eight. At the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, the Australians won a thrilling final by 0.03 seconds with only 1.5 lengths separating the field. Wright won his first and only World Championship title in his only senior World Championship appearance.^[3]

References

↑ "Tim Wright". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
1 2 Wright's career at Guerin Foster
1 2 3 Wright at World Rowing

Tim Wright at World Rowing

World champions – Lightweight men's eight

FISA championships

1974: (Baldino, Gaynor, Nauman, Harman, Aserlind, Ewing, Feld, Grogan, cox Hartigan)
1975: (Meyer, Lutz, Braun, Maye, Fritsch, Buhren, Lobing, Kerkhoff, cox Neumeister)
1976: (Werner, Zimmer, Büsken, Nentwig, Neubert, Meschede, Huck, Nehmer, cox Sassenbach)
1977: (Read, Stuart-Bennett, George, Simpole, Cusack, Innes, Topolski, Drury, cox Sweeney)
1978: (Simpole, Read, Drury, Downie, Roberts, Zeun, Melvin, French, cox Moynihan)
1979: (Goicoechea, Arteaga, Uriarte, Expósito, Elizalde, Redondo, Puertas, Climent, cox Olasagasti)
1980: (Barratt, Hosking, Downie, Howe, Zeun, Roberts, Read, Simpole, cox Jefferies)
1981: (Knudsen, Jensen, Mølgaard, Højlund, Hansson, Eriksen, Espersen, Fransson, cox Klug-Andersen)
1982: (Valentinis, Torta, Pantano, Tontodonati, R. Borsini, L. Borsini, Castiglioni, Salani, cox Di Capua)
1983: (Moya, Cañete, Génova, Muniesa, Crespo, Briones, Llorente, Elizalde, cox Rojí)
1984: (Mølgaard, Jacobsen, Højlund, Hansson, Christensen, Jensen, Espersen, Kobbernagel, cox Rasmussen)

Official world championships

1985: (Losi, Savoia, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Marostica, Re, Ravasi, cox Di Deco)
1986: (Losi, Savoia, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Di Deco)
1987: (Losi, Striani, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Zanetti)
1988: (Striani, Re, Spremberg, Losi, Ravasi, Barbaranelli, Bellomo, Torcellan, cox Velotti)
1989: (Barbaranelli, Romanini, Falossi, Fraquelli, Torcellan, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Lamberti)
1990: (Barbaranelli, Falossi, Gaddi, Ranieri, Ravasi, Re, Romanini, Striani, cox Lamberti)
1991: (Barbaranelli, Cantoni, Gaddi, Marigliano, Ranieri, Ravasi, Re, Romanini, cox Iannuzzi)
1992: (Andersen, Blitskov, Buck, Hansen, Jensen Kollat, Meyer, Poulsen, Vestergaard, cox Sorensen)
1993: (Boyes, Cookson, Fontaine, Hassett, Lay, Peaker, Sommerwil, Thompson, cox Newman)
1994: (Bates, Cox, Ellis, Hessian, Kay, Lemon, McNiven, Smith, cox Deakin)
1995: (Andersen, Bech Jensen, Buck, Glud, Henrichsen, Jensen Kollat, Jensen, Vestergaard, cox Larsen)
1996: (Bech, Edeler, Jenny, Locher, Mielke, Töpfer, Vukelic, Maerz, cox Klotz)
1997: (Balmforth, Berney, Burgess, Isherwood, Mitchell, Richards, Wiseman, Wright, cox Hayman)
1998: (Edeler, Ibielski, Laib, Locher, Rosenberger, Stomporowski, Strauch, Vukelic, cox Kaska)
1999: (Plifka, Kerber, Cashman, Den Besten, Cotter, Ruckman, Tripician, Kammann, cox Salamini)
2000: (Miller, Mack, Cashman, Winkler, Fedyna, Schwartz, Maclaurin, Warner, cox Fien-Helfman)
2001: (Dupy, Péron, Porchier, Bussière, Touron, Bette, Hocdé, Dorfman, cox Lattaignant)
2002: (Scala, Lodigiani, Del Gaudio, Moriconi, Paniccia, Grande, Fraquelli, Pasqualini, cox Di Palma)
2003: (Seibt, Raeder, Drews, Hasse, Borchardt, Schmidt, Hobein, Dahlke, cox Kaska)
2004: (Solforosi, Margat, Saïtta, Pouge, Bussière, Faucheux, Planque, Tilliet, cox Majerus)
2005: (Vlcek, Danesin, Savrie, Goretti, Scala, Moriconi, Del Gaudio, Gabriele, cox Barattolo)
2006: (Scala, Tuccinardi, La Padula, Sancassani, Goretti, Savrie, Vlcek, Gabriele, cox Lenzi)
2007: (van den Broek, Bottema, Blankert, Beemsterboer, Tromp, Greidanus, Snijders, Godschalk, cox Wiersum)
2008: (Carcagno, Bolton, Farrell, Altman, Todd, Daly, Paradiso, Muffelman, cox del Guercio)
2009: (Scala, Riccardi, La Padula, Goretti, Ceccatelli, Gallo, Vlcek, Mascarenhas, cox Lenzi)
2010: (Wisgott, Gerhardt, Lüke, Wichert, J. Kühner, Seibt, Schömann-Finck, M. Kühner, cox Kowert)
2011: (Bertrand, Brown, Tunevitsch, Gibson, Foot, Chisholm, Baker, Purcell, cox Webster)
2012: (M. Schömann-Finck, J. Schömann-Finck, M. Kühner, Schützeberg, Hochbruck, J. Kühner, Seibt, Wichert, cox Sauer)
2013: (Molteni, Amarante, Zaharia, Barbaro, Oppo, Serpico, Schisano, Di Girolamo, cox D'Aniello)
2014: (Franzmann, Barr, Neumann, Wallat, Wisgott, Kilthau, Keßler, Temel, cox Böhm)
2015: (Schad, Barr, Neumann, Roller, Franzmann, Wallat, Mertens, Temel, cox Heinemann)

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