David Anderson

David Rollo Anderson (8 April 1932 – 5 November 2025) was an Australian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, the 1954 Commonwealth Games and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Club and state rowing Anderson attended Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1948. Both Nimrod Greenwood and Edward Pain, who were in the Australian eight at the 1952 Summer Olympics with Anderson, also attended Sydney High.

Anderson did his senior rowing at the Leichhardt Rowing Club in Sydney.

International representative rowing In 1952, he was in the four seat of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event at the Helsinki Olympics. Four years later at 1956 Melbourne he stroked Australia's coxless four which was eliminated in the semi-final stage of that competition. Anderson and Williamson won bronze rowing as the coxless pair and then with the two scullers Wood and Evatt up the bow end, they won gold as a coxed four steered by Anderson's Leichhardt club coxswain Lionel Robberds.

Anderson died on 5 November 2025, at the age of 93.