Phillip Ainsworth
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Phillip Ainsworth is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an Australian national champion and won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships.
Ainsworth was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne where he took up rowing in 1966. He rowed in the Scotch second VIII in his final school year of 1969. He continued rowing at Monash University in 1970 and then joined Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne in 1972.
In 1977 Ainsworth rowed in the Mercantile lightweight eight which won the national championship title at the Australian Rowing Championships.[1]
International representative rowing
Ainsworth made his Australian representative debut at the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in the Australian men's lightweight eight. That eight won a bronze medal with Ainsworth in the three seat.[2]
