Mike McKay

Mike McKay medal table
Rowers
Australia
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1992 Barcelona	Foursome without a helmsman
gold	1996 Atlanta	Foursome without a helmsman
silver	2000 Sydney	Eighth
bronze	2004 Athens	Eighth

Michael McKay (born September 30, 1964 in Melbourne , Australia ), better known as Mike McKay , is an Australian rower and two-time Olympic champion .

In 1990 he began rowing in four without a helmsman with Nick Green , Sam Patten and James Tomkins . The first successes came quickly: in 1990 and 1991 they won the rowing world championships . After Sam Patten was replaced by Andrew Cooper , the gold medal followed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . They were able to repeat this success four years later at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (with Drew Ginn replacing Andrew Cooper).

When the successful team broke up soon afterwards, McKay moved into eighth position in view of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . The Australian boat had been traded as a favorite in advance. In the final, however, they were beaten by the British boat by just eight tenths of a second. McKay was in 2004 in Athens again in the Australian eighth. There they ranked third behind the United States and the Netherlands .

In 1993 McKay and the other members of the 1992 Olympic team were awarded the Order of Australia . In 2007 McKay also received the Thomas Keller Medal from the FISA World Rowing Association .

Web links

• Mike McKay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Mike McKay at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )