Angus Dawson
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Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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| Born | 30 October 2000 Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Dingabledinga, South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Adelaide UC Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2017– | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 99 kg (218 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Men's eight (M8+) Men's coxed four (M4+) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Adelaide Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Mark Prater, Rhett Ayliffe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | Tokyo 2020 M8+ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | King's Cup 2019 & 2021 M2- Aust Champion 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angus Dawson (born 30 October 2000) is an Australian representative rower. He is an Australian national champion and twice an U23 world champion (in 2019 and 2022). He was a 2021 Tokyo Olympian where he rowed in the Australian men's eight.[1][2]
Raised in rural South Australia at Dingabledinga, Dawson was schooled at St Peter's College where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing started from the Adelaide Rowing Club.[3]
Dawson's state representative debut for South Australia came in 2017 when still aged sixteen he was selected in the state youth eight to contest the Noel Wilkinson trophy at the Interstate Regatta.[4] He was again selected in the South Australian youth eight in 2018.[5] That year he won an U19 national title in the double scull with Mitchell Reinhard.[6] In 2019 he was selected in the South Australian men's senior eight to contest the Kings Cup.[7]
In 2020 Dawson studied at UC Berkeley and rowed in the Berkeley varsity eight.[8] He returned to Australia due to Covid concerns and entered the Australian senior men's squad. In 2021 he again rowed in the South Australian King's Cup eight[9] and that year he won an open men's coxless pair national championship title with his South Australian team-mate Alexander Hill.[10][11]
