Alexander Hill

Alexander Hill (born 11 March 1993) is an Australian representative rower.He is an Australian national champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold and silver medallist and was the 2017 and 2018 world champion in the coxless four. He stroked the Australian men's coxless four to a gold medal victory at the Tokyo Olympics.

Club and state rowing Hill grew up in Loxton, South Australia. He attended Loxton North Primary School and took up rowing at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. His senior club rowing has been from the Adelaide Rowing Club.

In 2012, from 2014 to 2017 and in 2019 Hill was seated in the South Australian state representative men's eights competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In those crews he won five bronze and one silver medals. In 2019 and 2021 he was also selected as South Australia's single-sculling representative to contest the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He won both those national titles. In 2023 he placed fourth as the Sth Australian representative in the Presidents Cup.

In 2014 in Adelaide Rowing Club colours, he contested the national coxless pair title at the Australian Rowing Championships with Angus Moore. In 2013 he contested the national coxless pair title in an Australian selection composite crew and placed second. In 2019 at the Australian Rowing Championships he won the open men's single scull title in Adelaide colours. In 2021 rowing with Angus Dawson he won an Australian championship title in the open men's coxless pair in addition to winning the Australian championship title in the coxless four with his national training centre crewmates.

In 2021 he started to coach with the Adelaide school Prince Alfred College in their senior squad whilst on break from formal national training.

International career Hill made his Australian representative debut in a junior men's coxed four selected to contest the 2011 Junior World Rowing Championships at Eton Dorney. That crew won gold. in a crew with Will Lockwood, Spencer Turrin and Josh Dunkley-Smith.

In 2017 Hill held his seat as stroke of in Australia's coxless four with Turrin, Joshua Hicks and Jack Hargreaves. They took gold at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and then raced in the Australian men's senior eight at the WRC III in Lucerne to a silver medal.

The world champion four stayed together into 2018 and started their 2018 international campaign with a gold medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria. They repeated their 2017 tactic with a blistering rating of 43 from the start and kept it up above 40 for the rest of the race. The fourth Australian men's eight to ever do so.The following week back in the coxless four, Hill won another gold at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. The four were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They won their heat and semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for Tokyo 2020. Racing with Harley Moore in the men's pair, he took silver at the WRC III in Lucerne. At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racice, he raced in the Australian coxless pair with Moore. They finished fifth overall.

In 2022, Hill declared his elite level availability and in March 2023 along with Hargreaves, Turrin and Purnell was re-selected as the Australian coxless four for the 2023 international season and world championship preparation. At the World Rowing Cup II in Varese, Italy they raced as Australia's M4- entrant. They made the A final and won the silver medal behind the Great Britain four.