Alex Lloyd (rower)
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17 December 1990 (age 25) Darlinghurst, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
| Education | Shore | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Sydney Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alexander Lloyd (born 17 December 1990) in Darlinghurst, Sydney is an Australian Olympic representative rower. [1]
Education
Lloyd grew up in Sydney, attended Boronia Park Primary school and took up rowing in his high school years at Sydney's Shore school. [2] He studied for a BCivilEng from Deakin University.
Club and national career
His senior career has been with Sydney Rowing Club since 2009. In 2014 he was seated in the New South Wales state VIII which won the Kings Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships. He was in the NSW King's Cup crew again in 2015 and stroked that VIII in 2016. NSW placed 2nd behind Victoria in 2015 & 16.
International rowing career
At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea Lloyd was selected to represent Australia in the Coxless four with Will Lockwood, Josh Dunkley-Smith and Spencer Turrin. The crew placed 2nd in the final, losing to The Netherlands by a split second.
In the final of the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, in a coxless four with Dunkley-Smith, Turrin and Fergus Pragnell, Lloyd won the bronze medal.
In preparation for the 2015 World Rowing Championships he crashed during bicycle training in Italy and broke a collarbone. Lloyd had to withdraw from the M4-crew of Lockwood, Dunkley-Smith & Turrin and was replaced by Alexander Hill. That crew went on to win the silver medal on Lac d'Aiguebelette .[3]
In 2016 he was selected with his Sydney Rowing Club clubmate Spencer Turrin in the men's coxless pair to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[4] They won their heat on day one of competition, progressed through a semi-final and finished fifth in their final.
References
External links
- Alex Lloyd at WorldRowing.com from FISA