David Webster

David Webster (born 11 September 1987 in East Melbourne) is an Australian national champion rowing coxswain who steered Australian crews at six World Rowing Championships and won two world championship titles in 2010 and 2011.

Club and state rowing Webster was educated at Melbourne Grammar School where he took up rowing. His senior rowing was done from the Melbourne University Boat Club.

From 2011 to 2016 Webster was selected to represent Victoria in the senior men's eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He steered the Victorian eight to King's cup victories in 2015 and 2016 and his in-boat call of the 2016 victory can be heard here.

International representative rowing Webster's Australian representative debut was as cox of the men's eight selected to compete at the 2009 World Rowing U23 Championships in Racice. That crew placed fourth.

In 2010, Webster's first year in senior representative Australian crews, he experienced World Championship success at Lake Karapiro 2010 in the stern of the lightweight Australian men's eight – a silver medal – and in the bow of a heavyweight coxed pair rowed by Chris Morgan and Dominic Grimm to a gold medal and their first World Championship title. Webster recorded and published his victorious race call in the LM8+. The pair containing Webster's Victorian King's Cup teammates Will Lockwood and James Chapman led at all three marks but were pipped in the run to the finish by an Italian pair winning Webster in the bow his second silver World Championship medal. In the Australian senior eight David Webster placed sixth at the World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne a few months later in 2014 and at the 2014 World Championships in Amsterdam they placed seventh overall.

Accolades Webster was selected as captain of the national Australian rowing squad in 2013. He won a Victoria University High Performance Sport Scholarship in 2013 and was named as Victoria University's Male Sports Person of the Year in 2013. He studied a B. Sport and Recreation Management at VU.