Nick Hudson was an U23 world champion, an Australian national champion and was a silver medallist at the 2009 World Championships.
15 Facts About Nick Hudson
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Nick Hudson stroked the school's first VIII in 2000 to a 5th placing at the AAGPS Head of the River.
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Domestically while racing for his state, New South Wales, Nick Hudson has won the Noel F Wilkinson Cup for Youth Eights in 2003, stroking the crew to a win by almost five seconds.
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Nick Hudson made his Kings Cup debut for New South Wales in 2007 placing 2nd behind Victoria.
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Nick Hudson returned to the New South Wales Kings Cup crew in 2009, recording a dominant victory by over five seconds.
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Nick Hudson won his second Kings Cup in 2010 and was selected in the crew again in 2012, where New South Wales won, making Nick Hudson a three-time winner of the event.
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Nick Hudson raced in a quad scull World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before contesting the Nations Cup in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Nick Hudson was in a quad scull with Eugene Arendsen, Henry Gundry and Tom Westgarth which won a gold medal.
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At the 2004 World Rowing U23 Championships Nick Hudson was again a member of the Australian Quad Scull, this time winning the bronze medal.
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Five years later, Nick Hudson made his debut in the Australian senior team, winning a silver medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland.
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Nick Hudson again made the A Final the following year at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.
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At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Nick Hudson competed in the men's single scull giving him senior national representation across the full range of sculling boats in the space of just three years.
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Nick Hudson placed eighteenth in what would be his last World Championship appearance for Australia.
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Nick Hudson was vying for a seat in the Australian men's eight for the 2012 London Olympics but missed selection and raced in a coxless pair with Fergus Pragnell at the World Rowing Cups II and III in Europe that year and was a reserve for the Olympic heavyweight squad.
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Nick Hudson announced his retirement from competitive rowing in March 2015, on the eve of the Australian Rowing Championships.