Brian Digby
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Barwon Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Penrith Cup 1983-1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Brian Digby is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an eleven-time national champion, an Australian national representative at seven World Rowing Championships and a Commonwealth Games. He won silver medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and at the 1983 World Rowing Championships. For a five year period from 1984 to 1988 he was the consistent stroke of the Australian national champion lightweight coxless four.
Digby's senior rowing was from the Barwon Rowing Club in Geelong. He commenced as a coxswain and later moved into lightweight rowing.[1] In 1974 he first made Victorian state selection as the cox of the 1974 Victorian youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[2]
Between 1983 and 1992 he made seven state appearances, all at stroke of the Victorian lightweight coxless four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He led those crews to four victories and three second placings.[1]
In Barwon colours he contested various national championship events at the Australian Rowing Championships throughout the 1980s. He contested the lightweight coxless four in 1982,[3] 1983 and won that event in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988.[4] He won the national title in the lightweight eight in 1983[5] and 1984. His lightweight coxless four campaigns from 1983 to 1985 were rowed with his brother Bill.