Phil Cayzer

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Phillip "Phil" Arthur Cayzer (born May 13, 1922 - July 15, 2015 in Sydney ) was an Australian rower . In 1952 he was Olympic third with the Australian eighth .

Athletic career

Phil Cayzer rowed for the Sydney Rowing Club from 1947 . From 1949 he sat in the eighth of New South Wales, with whom he was Australian champion from 1949 to 1951. In 1950 he won the British Empire Games in Auckland with the Australian eighth .

Two years later, the Australian eighth in the line-up Bob Tinning , Ernest Chapman , Nimrod Greenwood , Mervyn Finlay , Edward Pain , Phil Cayzer, Tom Chessell , David Anderson and helmsman Geoff Williamson at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. In the first run, the Australians took second place behind the Yugoslavs. In the second semifinals they reached the finish line third behind the boats from the United States and the Soviet Union, but were able to prevail as the winner of the first hope run against the Yugoslavs. In the final, the boat from the United States won ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union and the Australians in the semifinals. In 1953 Cayzer dropped out due to a traffic accident injury, but in 1954 he was again champions of New South Wales.

Cayzer graduated from St. Joseph's College in Sydney and studied chemistry. He later became a businessman, but remained connected to rowing. He coached the Sydney Rowing Club until the 1970s and coached the Australian foursome with helmsman at the 1964 Olympic Games. In the 1970s, he moved to Melbourne and became a trainer at the Mercantile Rowing Club . He returned to Sydney in the 1980s. He later initiated an annual competition between the Sydney Rowing Club and the Mercantile Rowing Club, and the winning crew received the Cayzer Cup. In 1992 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to rowing .

Web links

  • Phil Cayzer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  • Portrait at the Sydney Rowing Club (accessed January 21, 2020)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entry in the Commonwealth Games , accessed on January 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 270f
personal data
SURNAME Cayzer, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cayzer, Phillip Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1922
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2015
Place of death Sydney