Hamish Playfair

Hamish Playfair (born 21 December 1991) is an Australian rower. He is a four-time national champion and an Australian representative at World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing Raised in Sydney, Playfair was educated and introduced to rowing at Shore School. His senior rowing was initially from the Sydney University Boat Club and then from 2017 he moved to the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club.

He debuted at state representative level for New South Wales in the 2010 youth eight which contested the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the 2010 Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed again in the New South Wales youth eight in 2011 when they placed second at the Interstate Regatta.

He first rowed in the New South Wales men's senior eight when they won the 2017 King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He rowed again to King's Cup victories in the 2018 and 2019 New South Wales men's eight.

At the 2017 Australian Championships he won the open men's quad scull national title rowing with Luke Letcher, Caleb Antill and David Watts.

International representative rowing Playfair made his Australian representative debut in 2013 in an U23 quad scull at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. That quad went on to the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz where they finished in overall ninth place. In 2014 he stroked Australia's second quad at the World Rowing Cup I and took bronze. In 2019 he was selected with Campbell Watts to row Australia's double scull for the 2019 international season. They placed 5th at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and 6th at WRC III in Rotterdam. The quad were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They won their heat and placed third in semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for the A-final and the Tokyo 2020. and died of melanoma in 2009 when Hamish was aged eighteen.