Fergus Hamilton
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Reading, United Kingdom
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| Nickname(s) | Greg, Frog | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian/ NZ / GB | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 January 2000 Reading, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Jindera, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RBNTC / Mercantile / Yale | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Lyall McCarthy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Fergus Hamilton (born 29 January 2000) is an Australian representative rower. He was a 2017 World Junior Champion, he stroked the U23 M8+ to Bronze medal at the 2022 World U23 World Rowing Championships and in 2023 he joined the Australian senior squad in the M2- and placed 8th at World Championships to qualify the M2- for 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hamilton initially started rowing in a single scull at home on a farm dam in Gippsland until he could join the rowing program at Gippsland Grammar School. He moved to Melbourne Grammar School in Year 9 where he enjoyed a successful rowing career which included winning Victorian APS Head of the River in 2016, competing at Henley Royal Regatta in the Princess Elizabeth Cup 2016 and being nominated as Captain of Boats for 2017 which was his senior year. Fergus was selected to compete at the 2017 Junior World Rowing Championships with Cormac Kennedy-Leverett in the M2x where they won gold.
During his school years as a boarder Fergus would row with Corowa Rowing Club during his school holidays, his senior club rowing has been from Melbourne's Mercantile Rowing Club. His father Richard Hamilton rowed for Great Britain at Atlanta 1996.
In 2018 Fergus won a place at Yale University to study Anthropology. He rowed in the men's heavyweight crews in his Freshman and Sophomore years before returning to Australia during the Covid Pandemic in 2020. Fergus returned to Yale in 2021 to complete his studies and was nominated Yale Heavyweight Crew Captain in 2023. Fergus rowed in the Varsity VIII from 2019 to 2023 enjoying many wins including the Head of the Charles, Eastern Sprints and Yale Harvard regatta. He was twice named as Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association (IRCA) All-American crew and All-Ivy Crew.