Christian Ryan

Christian Ryan (born 5 June 1977 in Warrnambool, Victoria) is an Australian former rower who won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Club and state rowing Ryan's senior club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club.

Victorian state representation first came for Ryan in the 1996 youth eight which contested and won the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 1998 he was selected in the Victorian men's eight to race for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He rowed in the bow seat of that 1998 Vic eight to a King's Cup victory. He rowed in further Victorian King's Cup crews in 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007 and saw victories in 2000, 2006 and 2007.

International representative rowing Ryan's Australian representative debut was at the 1997 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne in an U23 Australian eight. That crew then competed at the 1997 World Rowing U23 Championships in Milan where they raced to a fourth place.

After a five year gap Ryan was back in national representative contention in 2005. He raced in a coxless pair with Karsten Forsterling at the 2005 World Rowing Championships to an overall eighth placing. In 2006 he made his last Australian appearance in a coxless four at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan.