Robert Scott (rower)

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Robert Scott
Medal record

Competitor for Australia
Men's Rowing
Olympic Games
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Coxless pairs

Robert Scott (born 5 August 1969 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian rower.

Robert Scott won West Australian Sports Star of the Year Award in 1996 for his achievements in rowing. This included Silver at the Atlanta Olympic Games in the Stroke Australia's Men's Pair, Gold in the International Championships in Cologne, Silver in Dvisburg, Gold in the pre-Olympic trials in Lucerne . He came first in the Open Pair Stroke, Open Coxless Four Stroke & Open Eight Stroke at the National Championships.

He was partnered with David Weightman in the Australian men's coxless pair at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The pair believed they had a real chance of gold and threw everything at their opponents in the final 500 metres of a thrilling race but had to be content with second place and a silver medal behind legendary British rower Steven Redgrave and his team-mate Matthew Pinsent.

External links

Robert Scott at RowingOne.com
Profile at sports-reference.com
at wasportsfed.asn.au

Persondata
Name	Scott, Robert
Alternative names
Short description	Rower
Date of birth	5 August 1969
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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