David Colvin

David Colvin (born 4 November 1961) is an Australian former rowing coxswain and a rowing coach. He is a ten-time Australian King's Cup champion, an Olympian and a medalist at World Rowing Championships.

State and club rowing Colvin was educated at Melbourne Grammar School where he was introduced to rowing. He steered that school's second VIII to a victory at the Victorian schools' Head of the River in 1979. His senior club rowing was initially from the Banks Rowing Club in Melbourne starting in 1980, and from 1988 at the Mercantile Rowing Club.

Colvin was first selected to cox the Victorian men's eight contesting the 1985 King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 1991 he steered the Australian men's lightweight eight to their fourth place finish at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna. Between 2008 and 2013 he was the co-coach of five Queen's Cup winning Victorian women's eights at the Australian Rowing Championships.