page_title: Sydney Rowing Club
section_title: Competition history & representative success
hierarchical_section_title: Sydney Rowing Club / Competition history & representative success
caption_attribution_description: English: Bobby Pearce Australian Sculler
context_page_description: Sydney Rowing Club is the oldest rowing club in New South Wales, Australia formed in 1870. It has occupied its current site on Port Jackson's Parramatta River at Abbotsford Point since 1874. The club has a focus on its high performance and elite rowing programs and as of the 2012 Olympic Games, sixty-two rowers from the club had competed at the Olympic Games on ninety-five occasions. Over one hundred club members have achieved national selection.
context_section_description: For eight successive years from 1880 to 1888 the SRC won the New South Wales Rowing Association's premiership pennant, a run that wouldn't be matched until 1929 by the Mosman Rowing Club. The Association's premiership was again won continuously from 1903/04 to 1908/09 and when a junior pennant was introduced in 1908/09 that was won too.
  Bobby Pearce was the dominant world sculler from the late 20s and along with Herb Turner at the national level in the early 30s, they established Sydney's credentials as a force in single sculls. Merv Wood continued to shine the club's light in sculling in the 40s and 50s.
  Following World War II, Australian Olympic teams increased in size; the rowing squad began to send larger crews & boats and Sydney club rowers contributed significantly to representative squads up till the mid 1970s and to a lesser extent ever since.
  Sydney and Leichhardt men made up the entire contingent of the squad of thirteen who travelled to Helsinki 1952 with Sydney contributing nine of those athletes. This pattern continued in the next two decades with an entire Sydney coxed four of Alf Duval, Alan Grover, Mick Allan, John Campbell and Gary Herford selected to compete at Tokyo 1964 under coach Phil Cayzer  who a few years later recruited a number of national senior rowers to join Duval, Grover,  Joe Fazio and Michael Morgan at Sydney to create the men's eight for the 1968 Summer Olympics. Eight of the sixteen man squad for Munich 1972 plus coach Allan Callaway were from the club followed by five of the twelve man squad for Montreal 1976 plus coach Morgan and team official John Coates.
  From Amsterdam 1928 until Rio 2016 the Sydney club had at least one representative in every Australian Olympic rowing squad with the single exception of  Barcelona 1992.
caption: Bobby Pearce at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics
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