Clyde Hefer
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| Full name | Robert Clyde Hefer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Clyde | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 April 1961 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1978–1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Drummoyne Rowing Club Balmain Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clyde Hefer (born 12 April 1961) is an Australian former rower - a two-time World Champion and Olympic medal winner.[1][2]
Hefer's senior rowing was with the Drummoyne Rowing Club in Sydney. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1979 he won a national championship title in a lightweight M4- with his brother Gary, Geoff Webb and Graeme Wearne. In 1980 Graham Gardiner joined Hefer at Drummoyne and at that year's nationals Hefer won two Australian championship titles - the lightweight M2- with Gardiner and the lightweight M4- with Gardiner, Wearne and Michael Smith. In 1981 in those same two crews Hefer again raced for those same titles but this time representing the Balmain Rowing Club and both to 2nd place.[3]
From 1982 Hefer was racing in the open weight division and was back at the Drummoyne Rowing Club from 1984 under coach Rusty Robertson. He was selected in New South Wales King's Cup crews of 1982, 1983 (at stroke) and in the victorious crew of 1984.[4]
