Josh Dunkley-Smith was a national champion, a dual Olympian, two-time silver Olympic medal winner, and won medals at five World Rowing Championships.
15 Facts About Josh Dunkley-Smith
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Josh Dunkley-Smith rowed in The Geelong College first VIII in Victorian Schools Head of the River races in 2006 and 2007.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith's mother, Addy Bucek, is a former Australian Olympic sailing representative.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith's younger sister, Addy, was an Australian representative rower.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith retired from competitive rowing following the 2018 King's Cup, which was his ninth state representative appearance for Victoria in that event.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith's was first selected to Victorian state representative honours in the 2008 Victorian youth eight, who won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.
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On nine consecutive occasions from 2010 to 2018, Josh Dunkley-Smith was seated in the Victorian men's senior eight who contested the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith stroked four of those Victorian eights in King's Cup races.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith made his national representative debut in 2009 when he was selected to stroke an Australian U23 eight to contest the World Rowing U23 Championships in Racice.
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In 2010, Josh Dunkley-Smith competed in an Australian coxless four, winning gold at the World Rowing Cup II in Munich and in the men's eight who took silver at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne.
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In 2011, Josh Dunkley-Smith secured a seat in the Australian senior coxless four, and for the next five years he rowed in that boat consistently at Olympics and at World Championships.
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That year with Samuel Loch, Nicholas Purnell and Drew Ginn, Josh Dunkley-Smith won a bronze medal at the World Championships at Bled 2011.
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At the 2012 London Olympics, Josh Dunkley-Smith won a silver medal in the Australian coxless four with Drew Ginn, James Chapman and Will Lockwood.
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Josh Dunkley-Smith was originally selected for the Australian men's eight in 2015, but an injury to Alex Lloyd led to him being put into the two seat of the four.
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In 2016, along with Will Lockwood, Joshua Booth, and Alex Hill, Dunkley-Smith was selected in the Australian Men's Coxless four to compete at Rio 2016.