Drew Ginn

Drew Ginn
Full name	Drew Cameron Ginn
nation	Australia
birthday	November 20, 1974
place of birth	Leongatha ,  Australia
size	196 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing , belt
society	Mercantile Rowing Club, Melbourne
Trainer	Christopher O'Brien, Noel Donaldson
National squad	since 1994–2012
status	active
Medal table
Olympic rowing regatta 3 × 1 × 0 × Rowing World Championships 5 × 1 × 2 ×
Olympic games gold 1996 Atlanta Foursome without gold 2004 Athens Two without gold 2008 Beijing Two without silver 2012 London Foursome without World championships bronze 1997 Aiguebelette Eighth gold 1998 Cologne Foursome with silver 1998 Cologne Two without gold 1999 St. Catharines Two without gold 2003 Milan Two without gold 2006 Eton Two without gold 2007 Oberschleißheim Two without bronze 2011 Bled Foursome without
Last modified: February 4, 2014

Drew Ginn

To person
Full name	Drew Cameron Ginn
Date of birth	November 20, 1974
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
Most important successes
2009: Oceania Champion - Individual Time Trial
Last updated: February 4, 2014

Drew Cameron Ginn , OAM (born November 20, 1974 in Leongatha ) is an Australian rower and cyclist who is particularly successful in the two-man boat class , but also in the four-man boat and four-man boat class . He is a three-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion in rowing.

biography

Ginn won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with the four-man without a helmsman, along with Michael McKay , James Tomkins and Nicholas Green . In 1997 he was third in the eighth world championship in Aiguebelette-le-Lac . In the same line-up as in 1996, the Australian four-man won the 1998 World Cup in Cologne , and he was second in the two-man without a helmsman together with Michael McKay.

After that, Ginn and Tomkins concentrated on the two without a helmsman and became world champions in St. Catharines in 1999 . They planned to compete in the 2000 Olympic race in Sydney , but Ginn suffered a back injury and had to forego the start in favor of Matthew Long . In 2002 he took up rowing training, formed a rowing community with Tomkins again and was again world champion in Milan in 2003 . Ginn's second Olympic victory followed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

After Tomkins switched back to eighth, Ginn rowed with Duncan Free . In 2006 on Dorney Lake near Eton and in 2007 on the regatta course in Oberschleißheim near Munich , they won the world championship title twice in a row. In Beijing , Ginn won his third gold medal along with Free at the 2008 Summer Olympics .

In 2009 Ginn switched to cycling and immediately won the Oceania Championships in the individual time trial . In 2011 Ginn was again active on the regatta course and won bronze in the four-man World Championship, followed by Olympic silver in London in 2012 .

After his fourth participation in the Olympic rowing regatta in 2012, Ginn became a coach at the Australian rowing association Rowing Australia . In 2003 and 2007, he and his two-man partner were honored by the World Rowing Association with the World Rowing Male Crew of the Year award. He received the Thomas Keller Medal in 2014 in recognition of his extraordinary rowing career.

Web links

• Drew Ginn at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Drew Ginn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Drew Ginn in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Drew Ginn's blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-rower Ginn wins cycling time trial. Brisbane Times , November 13, 2009, accessed February 4, 2014 . 
2. ^ Drew Ginn transitions to coaching. World Rowing Association , October 12, 2012, accessed on February 4, 2014 . 
3. ^ World Rowing Awards. World Rowing Association, accessed on February 4, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Australian rowing star is 2014 Thomas Keller medal winner. World Rowing Association , July 3, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014 (English).