Campbell Watts

Campbell Watts (born 10 November 1995) is an Australian rower. He is an Australian national champion who participated at the 2018 World Rowing Championships, where he won a silver medal.

Club and state rowing Watts was educated at St Joseph's College Hunters Hill where he took up rowing.

Watts' senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club. He competed for the SUBC at the 2014 and 2015 Intervarsity Championships. In 2014 he rowed in the Sydney University eight and a coxed four and won both titles. In 2015 he competed in the coxed four and the eight and won a universities title in the eight.

He debuted at state representative level for New South Wales in the 2015 youth eight which contested and won the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the 2015 Australian Rowing Championships.

At the 2018 Australian Rowing Championships he contested the open men's double scull national title with Hamish Playfair of UTS Haberfield and placed second. At the 2019 Australian Championships he won the open men's double scull national title with his SUBC clubmate Cameron Girdlestone. In 2021 he won an Australian Championship title in the open men's double scull with David Watts.

International representative rowing Watts made his Australian representative debut in 2017. He rowed in the Australian eight at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and then in the coxless four at WRC III in Lucerne. For the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, he rowed in the seven seat of the eight which missed the A final and achieved an overall eight place finish.

In 2018 he was in contention as Australia's single sculler and rowed that event at two World Rowing Cups in Europe finishing in C finals at both. The quad were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They won their heat and placed third in semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for the A-final and the Tokyo 2020. However Watts continued to train on with the Australian men's sculling squad and when final crews were announced six weeks out from the event, he was selected as a travelling reserve.

In March 2023 Watts was selected in Australian men's sculling squad for the 2023 international season. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese, Italy with Caleb Antill, David Bartholot and Cormac Kennedy-Leverett they raced as Australia's M4X entrant. They made the A final and with Bartholot changed out for Henry Youl they finished in sixth place.