Terry Davies (rower)
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Calcutta, British India
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| Born | 18 October 1933 Calcutta, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 31 July 2022 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Uni of WA Boat Club MUBC Banks Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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Terence Rodney Davies (18 October 1933 – 31 July 2022), better known as Terry Davies, was an Australian representative rower who competed at two Olympic Games.[1] He raced at the 1960 Rome Olympics in the Men's coxless pair and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the Men's eight. He won a gold medal at the 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games in the Men's eight[2] and represented in the Australian eight at the inaugural 1962 World Rowing Championships.
Davies was born in India where his father was a policeman. His family lived in Mumbai during WWII.[3]
Davies commenced his rowing at the University of Western Australia club in Perth in 1951.[3] He raced in the Uni of WA senior eight at the 1953 and 1954 Intervarsity Championships.[4][5] Davies made his sole state representative appearance for Western Australia in 1954 contesting the King's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta.[6]
Victorian club and state rowing
Davies relocated to Melbourne in 1956 and initially joined the MUBC. Early in the 1961 season he moved to the Banks Rowing Club.[3] He won Victorian state championships in 1957 and 1958 in MUBC eights then in 1959 and 1960 in coxed and coxless pairs.[3]
He was selected into the Victorian men's senior eight to contest and win the King's Cup in 1958 and then he rowed in further Victorian King's Cup crews in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965. Four of those five crews were victorious including the 1963 and 1964 eights which Davies stroked.[3]
Following his Australian representative success Davies continued to compete for Banks at the senior level until 1968 then becoming a committee-man and club selector. He coached at the school level in Victoria and from the 1980s until 1995 competed at the Masters level. He was made a life member of Banks Rowing Club in 1999[3] and admitted to the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame in 2011.
