John Hawkins

John Hawkins is an Australian former representative rower. He was a three time Australian national champion and won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing Hawkins commenced his senior club rowing in 1968 with the South Melbourne Rowing club and rowed there till 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he was living in Queensland and rowed from the Surfers Paradise Rowing Club. In 1975, he relocated back to Melbourne and joined the Mercantile Rowing Club from where he had most of his representative success.

Hawkins first rowed at the Australian Interstate Regatta in 1974 in a Queensland lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup. That crew finished third. He rowed again in the Australian lightweight eight at the 1979 World Rowing Championships where that crew placed sixth.