Malcolm Shaw

Malcolm Campbell Shaw (7 October 1947 – 8 May 2014) was a New Zealand-born, Australian representative rower. He competed for Australia at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Club and state rowing Born in Whakatāne, New Zealand, Shaw attended high school there and took a trade as a fitter and welder.

Shaw relocated to Sydney in 1969 and joined the Mosman Rowing Club. In Mosman crews he contested both the coxed and the coxless four events at the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships and he won the national title in the coxless four. He won the national coxless pair title in a composite crew with Tim Conrad in 1975. In 1976 he again contested both the coxed and the coxless four events in Mosman boats and won the coxless four national championship.

He first made state selection for New South Wales in the men's eight which contested the 1971 King's Cup at the annual Interstate Regatta. He raced in further New South Wales King's Cup crews in 1972, 1973 and 1975 and saw victories in 1972 and 1975.

Following his return to New Zealand in 1973 Shaw rowed again for the Whakatane Rowing Club in their men's eight in 1973–74. That crew won the 1974 New Zealand championship.

In the 1974 season back in New Zealand he pursued selection in the New Zealand national eight but was unsuccessful.

In 1976 Shaw in the two seat and Brian Richardson at bow were the only two members selected to the Australian Olympic eight who hadn't rowed in the 1976 New South Wales King's Cup crew. The back injury would prove to be the end of Mal Shaw's competitive rowing career although he had subsequent success as a coach of lightweight women's crews at Mosman.