Kim Mackney

Kim Mackney (born 5 February 1949) is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. From school until the national elite representative level and onto a long world-class masters career, Mackney rowed competitively for over fifty years. He can be credited with salvaging and re-establishing the Glebe Rowing Club in Sydney after its 1992 demise.

Club and state rowing Mackney's was introduced to rowing by his father Walter Mackney who had stroked the victorious New South Wales King's Cup crew of 1935 and the Australian men's eight at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Mackney attended Newington College from 1961 until 1966. During his long Sydney club career Kim Mackney rowed from most of the clubs on the harbour. He started at Mosman Rowing Club and then had thirteen seasons at Sydney Rowing Club from where he made national representation. He next rowed from Haberfield in 1979 and then moved to Drummoyne Rowing Club to row under coach Rusty Robertson in attempting to regain national selection. In 1981 Mackney and Terry Davis moved to Glebe Rowing Club to row under coach Milan Parker. In 1970 he again rowed in the New South Wales King's Cup eight.

In 1970 in SRC colours he competed for the national coxless four title at the Australian Rowing Championships. At the 1972 Australian Championships in a Sydney crew he won the coxless four national title in a row-over. In 1973 he contested both the double-sculls title and the coxless four. In 1976 in a composite Haberfield/Sydney crew he contested the national quad sculls title, placing second behind another Haberfield/Sydney combination. The following year he again contested the quad scull title in a Sydney crew and placed second.

In 1978 Mackney moved to Haberfield and he made the final of the coxless pair title at the Australian Rowing Championships in both 1978 and 1979 in the black and white of Haberfield.

International representative rowing Mackney made his Australian representative debut in the 1967 Trans Tasman series in an all-Sydney Rowing Club coxed four. That four lost all three of its match races against New Zealand. In 1972 he stroked an Australian coxless pair with Chris Stevens which raced at the Munich Olympics. They were eliminated in the repechage.

Glebe Rowing Club's fall and rise Mackney rowed at the Glebe Rowing Club for twelve years until its 1993 financial demise. The club's financial failure saw it lose its boatshed and clubhouse at the foot of Ferry Road, Glebe at Blackwattle Bay.

In a 2014 interview Mackney estimated his title wins at the Masters levels at 30 or 40. He stated that he had been rowing consistently over fifty-four consecutive seasons since 1961.