Scott Brennan (rower)

Scott Michael Brennan OAM (born 9 January 1983) is an Australian Olympic gold medal-winning and national champion rower from Hobart, Tasmania. He has represented for Australia in rowing at three consecutive Olympic games.

Scott Brennan
Personal information
Born (1983-01-09) 9 January 1983
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Height193 cm (76 in)
Weight90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
ClubLindisfarne Rowing Club
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's rowing
2008 BeijingDouble sculls

Personal

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Brennan took up rowing in 1995 whilst at St Virgil's College in Hobart, where he eventually became captain of the school in 1998. He continued his rowing through Guilford Young College for years 11 and 12 of his schooling and again became captain of the school in 2000. He studied medicine at the University of Tasmania and graduated in 2007 with honours.[1] He married Olympic single scull rowing gold medallist[2] Kim Crow in Hobart, Tasmania on 30 December 2015.[3] In January 2018, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child.[4] Their son, Jude, was born later that year.[5]

Rowing career

At the junior world representative level Brennan won silver in the single scull at the 2001 Junior World Championship and became the first Australian to have won gold in the single scull at the 2003 U/23 World Championship. At the 2004 rowing World Cup he won gold in the quad scull. Along with his longtime rowing partner David Crawshay Brennan has won numerous national titles in all sculling classes at the Australian Rowing Championships.[6]

Brennan's first Australian Olympic selection was for Athens 2004 when he rowed in the Australian quad scull who won their B final.[7] With David Crawshay, Brennan won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In March 2012 Brennan was selected to defend his Olympic title in the men's Double Scull with Beijing Crawshay at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[8] After a promising start to the campaign with a silver medal in the Lucerne World Cup, Brennan suffered a back injury immediately prior to the games but raced regardless, finishing in second place in the B final for an overall eighth place in the 2012 Olympic rankings. Brennan was unable to recover from this injury despite two years of intensive rehab and retired from the sport in 2015 to pursue a career in medicine.

He leads an active community life outside of medicine and rowing and is a volunteer with Camp Quality.[9]

References
  1. McGuire, Yvette: Work pays off for Scott Brennan, Mercury, 28 June 2008.
  2. http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/rio-olympics-2016-kim-brennan-wins-gold-for-australia-20160813-gqry9d.html
  3. Jeffrey, Nicole (5 January 2016). "New name for rower Kim Crow doesn't change her quest for gold". The Australian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  4. "Subscribe to The Australian | Newspaper home delivery, website, iPad, iPhone & Android apps". The Australian. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. Dutton, Chris (14 September 2018). "Olympic champion rower Kim Brennan nominated as woman of influence". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  6. 2012 Olympic profile
  7. http://corporate.olympics.com.au/athlete/scott-brennan AOC reference
  8. , The Age, 24 March 2012.
  9. Aussies Crawshay and Brennan win double sculls gold, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 August 2008.
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