Bruce Hick

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Bruce Samuel Hick (* 20th August 1963 in Rockhampton ) is a former Australian Lightweight - rowers . He won an Olympic bronze medal and three world titles.

Career

Hick took in 1985 in double sculls at the Match des Seniors part and finished fourth. At the 1987 World Championships , he took eighth place with the lightweight eighth . In 1988 he reached sixth place with the lightweight four without a helmsman . In 1990 the World Championships were held in Tasmania. When playing at home won Stephen Hawkins , Bruce Hick, Gary Lynagh and Simon Burgess in lightweight sculls bronze medal behind the Italians and the French. In 1991 in Vienna , the Australian lightweight double-four won in the line-up of the previous year with two tenths of a second ahead of the Swedes. 1992 in Montreal and 1993 in Račice u Štětí won Hick and Lynagh in the lightweight double scull .

In 1994, Hick and Lynagh switched to the lightweight four without a helmsman. In the line-up of Bruce Hick, Gary Lynagh, James Seppelt and Andrew Stunnel , the Australian boat won silver behind the Danes at the World Championships in Indianapolis . In 1995, Hick returned to the lightweight double scull and fought with Anthony Edwards bronze at the World Championships in Tampere behind the boats from Switzerland and Sweden. At the Olympic premiere of lightweight rowing in Atlanta in 1996, the Swiss brothers Michael and Markus Gier won in front of the boat from the Netherlands and the Australians.

In 1997 Bruce Hick did not row internationally, in 1998 he finished twelfth in the lightweight double scull at the world championships . In 1999 Hamish Karrasch joined Bruce Hick and the two Australians won silver at the World Championships in St. Catharines behind the Italians . At the end of his career, Bruce Hick started at the age of 37 together with Hamish Karrasch at the 2000 Olympic Games in front of a home crowd in Sydney. The two Australians took seventh place.

The 1.84 m tall Hick rowed for the Canberra Rowing Club .

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personal data
SURNAME Hick, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hick, Bruce Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian lightweight rower
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockhampton