page_title: Henry Hauenstein
section_title: Rowing career
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Hauenstein / Rowing career
caption_attribution_description: Australian Olympic VIII
context_page_description: Henry Denis Hauenstein, MM was an Australian national representative rower and a World War I infantry officer. He was a three-time Australian national champion rower who competed for Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the men's eight. He was a member of the Australian men's selection eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta of 1912. He saw active service on the Western Front where he won the Military Medal and was a member of the AIF crew which at war's end, won at the 1919 Peace Regatta and brought the King's Cup to Australia.
context_section_description: Hauenstein became the Leichhardt club's  first eight-oared state representative, rowing in the New South Wales men's eight at the Interstate Regatta for five consecutive years from 1907 to 1911. Those New South Wales crews were victorious in 1908, 1910 and 1911.  Hauenstein also raced at one point for the Balmain Rowing Club and then following his 1912 national selection joined the Sydney Rowing Club with the entire Australian eight so that they could enter and race at the Henley Royal Regatta as a club entrant. 
  In 1912 he was a member of the Australian men's eight which racing as a Sydney Rowing Club entrant, won the Grand Challenge Cup on the River Thames at the Henley Royal Regatta. The eight then moved to Stockholm for the 1912 Summer Olympics, where after beating a Swedish eight in the first round they were beaten by a Great British crew in round two - the same Leander eight they had beaten at Henley a few weeks earlier.
caption: Hauenstein (backrow 4th from right) with the 1912 Aust Olympic VIII, incl reserves & selectors
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