Malcolm Batten

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Malcolm William Batten (born March 12, 1964 ) is a retired Australian rower . In 1986 he was world champion with the Australian eighth .

Athletic career

The 1.85 m tall Malcolm Batten won the silver medal with the Australian eighth in 1985 at the Match des Seniors , a forerunner to the U23 World Championships .

In 1986 Malcolm Batten won the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh with the Australian eighth. Three weeks after the Commonwealth Games, the finals of the 1986 World Championships were held in Nottingham . The Australian crew with James Galloway , Malcolm Batten, Andrew Cooper , Mike McKay , Mark Doyle , James Tomkins , Ion Popa , Stephen Evans and helmsman Dale Caterson won with four seconds ahead of the aft from the Soviet Union and the United States.

The following year, the Australian eighth rowed at the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen in the cast Samuel Patten , Malcolm Batten, Hamish McGlashan , Mike McKay, Andrew Cooper, James Tomkins, Mark Doyle, Stephen Evans and Dale Caterson. Behind the boats from the United States, Germany and Italy, the Australians finished fourth, just 0.36 seconds behind the Italians.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Samuel Patten and Malcolm Batten formed a pair without a helmsman . After a fourth place in the preliminaries, the two retired as fourth in the repechage.

In 1991, Batten appeared again in eighth place at the World Championships in Vienna and finished tenth.

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Footnotes

  1. Entry in the Commonwealth Games , accessed on January 19, 2020
  2. eight finals in 1986 at worldrowing.com
  3. aft final 1987 at worldrowing.com
  4. Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 179f