Doug Bowden (rowing)
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Glebe, Sydney
Lindfield, Sydney
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| Born | 24 Nov 1906 Glebe, Sydney | |||||||||||
| Died | 20 April 1996 (aged 89) Lindfield, Sydney | |||||||||||
| Occupation | Hotel Management | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||
| Club | Glebe Rowing Club North Shore Rowing Club | |||||||||||
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Douglas William Bowden (24 Nov 1906 – 20 April 1996) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He was twice a national champion and an Australian representative who won a silver medal at the 1938 Commonwealth Games.
Born in Glebe in Sydney, Bowden's father died when he was seven and he left school aged 14 to take employment with the brewery Tooth and Co.[1] His early club coxing was from the Glebe Rowing Club where he was later in life honoured with a life membership.[1] He next joined the North Shore Rowing Club in Sydney where he was both a coxswain and coach and had competitive and representative success. He coached the club's eight to victory in the 1937 Henley-on-Yarra in Melbourne.[2]
Bowden first made state selection in the 1935 New South Wales men's eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the 1935 Interstate Regatta. He was the manager and the coxswain of that crew.[3] In 1936 he again steered the New South Wales eight to another King's Cup victory.[4] He was in the stern of the 1937 New South Wales eight which placed second at Murray Bridge in South Australia to the South Australian eight in that year's King's Cup.[5]
In 1938 he was the coach of the New South Wales eight when they placed second to West Australia in the King's Cup. Then along with four of that crew he was selected in the Australian men's eight for the 1938 Commonwealth Games. That eight with Bowden as coxswain took the silver medal behind the British crew.[6]
After a some years' absence from competition due to WWII, Bowden contested the New South Wales 1947 state title for eights in a North Shore Rowing Club crew of which he was cox and coach.[7]