Malcolm William Batten was born on 12 March 1964 and is an Australian former state and national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.
12 Facts About Malcolm Batten
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Malcolm Batten rowed for a season in 1982 with the Tweed Heads Rowing Club prior to moving to Brisbane and joining the Commercial Rowing Club.
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Malcolm Batten was one of the first Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders in 1985 and held full AIS scholarships from 1985 to 1988.
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Malcolm Batten moved to Melbourne in 1988 and joined the Mercantile Rowing Club.
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Malcolm Batten won the Australian national title in AIS coxless four in 1987 and 1988.
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Malcolm Batten stroked AIS eights to victory in Queensland state championships in 1988,1989 and 1990 with that 1988 crew winning the New South Wales state championship that year.
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Malcolm Batten stroked the Queensland King's Cup eight in 1988 and he raced in the victorious Victorian crew of 1990.
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Malcolm Batten stroked the Australian men's eight to a silver medal.
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Malcolm Batten rowed in the two seat of the victorious Australian men's eight.
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That same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, in that same crew Malcolm Batten won gold in the Australian men's VIII.
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At the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen Malcolm Batten was again in the two seat of Australian eight.
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Malcolm Batten is a partner and managing director of the Melbourne headquartered international construction business Cockram Construction.