Angus Widdicombe

Angus Widdicombe (born 31 August 1994) is an Australian rower. He is an Olympian, an Australian national champion, has represented at underage and senior world championships, winning consecutive silver medals at the 2017 and 2018 World Championships. He stroked the Australian men's eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Club and state rowing Widdicombe attended Geelong College and he crewed that school's first VIII in 2011 and 2012.

In Mercantile club eights Widdicombe contested the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 2014 and 2015. He made the 2015 Victorian senior men's eight competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta and rowed in that year's King's Cup victory. He contested further King's Cups in the white V in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 placing second to New South Wales in each of those years. In 2021 he stroked the Victorian men's eight to a King's Cup victory.

International representative rowing Widdicombe made his Australian representative debut at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam in the Australian U23 eight which raced to a seventh place finish. The following year he was tested in various sweep-oared boats in the international season of the Australian senior squad. He raced in the eight to a fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and in a coxless four at the WRC III in Lucerne. Then at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota and teamed with Darcy Wruck, Widdicombe rowed a coxed pair bearing James Rook up front, to a silver medal. The following week at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Widdicombe stroked the Australian eight to silver medal in a thrilling 0.14 second finish behind Germany. The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The eight placed second in their heat and fourth in the final and qualified for Tokyo 2020.

Widdicombe was selected into the Australian men's eight squad for the 2022 international season and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. At the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and at the WRC III in Lucerne, Widdcombe rowed in the four seat of Australian men's eight to a silver medal on both occasions. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Widdicombe raced in the Australian men's eight.