David McGowan

David McGowan (born 27 April 1981) is an Australian high-performance rowing coach and former representative rower. As a rower he was a junior world champion, competed twice at senior World Rowing Championships for Australia and raced at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics in a coxless four. As a coach he has had head coaching roles in the national rowing programmes of The Netherlands and Ireland. In 2000 he again raced in the WA youth eight when they won the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta.

In 2003 he was selected in the bow seat of the West Australian men's senior eight to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. That WA crew was narrowly beaten by Victoria. In 2004 he again rowed in the West Australian King's Cup eight.

International representative rowing McGowan made his Australian representative debut in 1999 in a men's four which won the junior world title at the Junior World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria setting what was then a world's best time at the junior level. The following year he was selected in an Australian four for the World Rowing U23 Championships held in Copenhagen. They rowed to a silver medal.