Simon Burgess represented Australia ten times at World Rowing Championships between 1990 and 2002.
17 Facts About Simon Burgess
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Simon Burgess won world and national championships in both sculls and in sweep-oared boat classes during an eighteen-year elite level career.
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Simon Burgess began contesting national lightweight championship sculling titles at Australian Rowing Championships in 1987 representing the Franklin Rowing Club.
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Simon Burgess won his first national championship being the Australian lightweight single sculls title in 1990.
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Simon Burgess rowed in the Tasmania representative men's lightweight four who contested the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta on ten occasions between 1993 and 2005.
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Simon Burgess stroked that crew on seven occasions in those years and was a crew member in the seven consecutive Tasmanian wins from 1999 to 2005.
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Simon Burgess contested the heavyweight singles sculls championship - the President's Cup - representing Tasmania in 1995.
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Simon Burgess was first selected to represent Australia in his "home" world championships at Lake Barrington 1990.
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At the 1992 lightweight World Championships Lynagh and Hick had success as a double while Simon Burgess raced the lightweight single scull championship for a fifth place.
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For Roudnice 1993 and Indianapolis 1994 Simon Burgess was back in the Australian lightweight quad scull and he stroked both those crews to a seventh place in 1993 and fifth place in 1994.
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Simon Burgess did not make Australian representative sculling crews in 1995 or 1996 due to illness, but by 1997 he was performing and selected at the elite level in lightweight sweep oared boats.
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For Cologne 1998 and then at St Catharine's 1999 Simon Burgess rowed in the Australian coxless four.
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Simon Burgess was again selected in the coxless four who competed at Seville 2002 and Milan 2003.
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Simon Burgess was selected with his longstanding sculling partner Gary Lynagh in the lightweight coxless four along with Haimish Karrasch and David Belcher.
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For Sydney 2000 Simon Burgess was again selected in the lightweight coxless four.
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At Athens 2004 Simon Burgess made his third and final Olympic appearance in the Australian lightweight coxless four, this time as stroke.
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Simon Burgess brought the Australian crew back into contention in the second and third 500 metres.