Adrian Monger
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Mercantile Rowing Club
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| Full name | Adrian Calero Monger | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 December 1932 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 July 2016 (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Melbourne Uni Boat Club Mercantile Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | Melbourne 1956 | ||||||||||||||
| National finals | King's Cup 1954–1956 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Adrian Calero Monger (6 December 1932 – 10 July 2016) was an Australian rower. He was twice Australian national champion and competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the men's eight.[1]
Monger was educated at Geelong Grammar School where he took up rowing. As a resident at Trinity College at Melbourne University he became involved with the Melbourne University Boat Club. Later he rowed from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. .[2]
He first made state selection for Victoria in 1954 in the men's eight contesting the King's Cup at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta. He rowed in further Victorian King's Cup eights in 1955 and 1956, and those crews were victorious in 1954 and 1956.[2]
