Kenneth Chan (rower)

Raised in Perth, Chan was educated at Trinity College, Perth where he took up coxing.

Chan was the prominent state representative coxswain for Western Australian for a number of years from 1995.^[1] He coxed West Australian men's eights contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships every year from 1995 to 2001.^[2] He steered the 1999 WA eight to a King's Cup victory.^[3]

Chan made his Australian representative debut in 2000 in the stern of the lightweight eight which contested and won gold at that year's World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne.^[4] At that year's 2000 World Rowing Championships in Zagreb - a lightweight only regatta being an Olympic year - Chan steered the Australian lightweight eight.^[4] In the heat they finished second behind the eventual gold medallists USA and won the repechage by half a length. In the final the Australians took the bronze behind a comfortable USA and then the British crew who had won their heat easily.^[5]

• Kenneth Chan at World Rowing