Andrew Dollman Cooper was born on 23 December 1964 and is a former Australian Olympic Champion and World Champion rower.
13 Facts About Andrew Cooper
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Andrew Cooper is a national champion, dual Olympian and two-time World Champion who achieved success as a member of Australia's "Oarsome Foursome" in 1991 and 1992.
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Andrew Cooper competed at the National Regatta in Mercantile colours in coxless pair and in coxed and coxless four from 1986 to 1988 and in 1990.
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Andrew Cooper won Australian national titles at those Australian Rowing Championships in 1986 in a coxless four; and in 1990 in both the coxed and coxless four with other members of the Oarsome Foursome.
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Andrew Cooper was selected in Victorian state representative King's Cup crews contesting the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1988,1991,1992,1994,1995.
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Andrew Cooper enjoyed the rare distinction of being victorious in every King's Cup he raced.
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Andrew Cooper rowed in the Australian men's eight to a silver medal.
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That same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, in that same crew Andrew Cooper won gold in the Australian men's VIII.
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At the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen, Andrew Cooper was in the bow seat of the Australian eight who took fourth place.
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Andrew Cooper was moved to the three seat for the men's eight for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul who placed fifth.
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Andrew Cooper would go on to enjoy great success rowing with Tomkins and McKay.
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In 1991 Andrew Cooper was in the Australian coxless four who won gold at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna along with Nick Green, Mike McKay, and James Tomkins.
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In 2010 Andrew Cooper was inducted as a member of the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame.