David Crawshay participant in rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – men's quadruple sculls
David William Crawshay  (born 11 August 1979) is an Australian former rower, an eleven-time national champion, an Olympic champion and medalist at World Championships. He represented Australia in rowing at three consecutive Olympic games from Athens 2004 to London 2012.Olympics
Crawshay's first Australian Olympic selection was for the 2004 Athens when he was selected in the Australian quad scull with Scott Brennan, Duncan Free and Shaun Coulton. They arrived at the Olympic Games as favourites, having won the World Cup in Lucerne. They qualified in the heat for the semi-final despite a crab early in the race. In the semi-final they started well enough but could not maintain the same boat speed as their competitors in the second five hundred. In the end they were in fourth place at every 500m mark and missed the final. In the B final they had to defeat the Sydney gold medallists Italy and the fancied Swiss and Estonians. They broke free of Italy with 650m to go and then held off the fast finishing Swiss and Estonian crews. They had sufficient reserves to hold off the final challenges to win the B final ending the regatta in seventh place.With unfinished business from Athens, Crawshay teamed up again with Scott Brennan in the men's double sculls for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. They rowed perfect races in the heat, semi final and final to finish with a gold medal and an Olympic championship.Brennan and Crawshay teamed up again for 2012 London. They finished second in the B final for an overall eighth place in the 2012 Olympic rankings.
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