Peter Hardcastle

Peter Hardcastle (born 14 July 1978) is a British-born, Australian rower who competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

Club and state rowing His senior rowing was with the Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney.

State representation came for Hardcastle in 2002 when he was selected as the New South Wales single sculler to contest the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He raced further President's Cups for New South Wales in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007.

On seven occasions between 2001 and 2008 in Mosman's red and white he contested the men's open single sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships.

International representative rowing Hardcastle's national representative debut came in 1997 when he was selected in the Australian U23 quad scull to compete at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Milan. They placed fifth.

In 1998 aged nineteen he was elevated to the Australian senior squad and into the quad scull. They raced at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and then at the 1998 World Rowing Championships in Cologne to a fifth place. With Matthew O'Callaghan changed out for Shaun Colton, Stuart Reside, Peter Hardcastle and Martin Inglis also raced as a quad at the 1998 World Rowing U23 Championships in Ioannina, Greece where they won the final and an U23 World Championship title. In the 2000 Olympic year they raced at two World Rowing Cups before coming to the Sydney 2000 where they made the final and finished in fourth place. In 2003 Hardcastle was teamed with David Crawshay who was in his third year in the Australian senior squad. They rowed the double scull at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne to a second place and then at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan to a sixth-place finish in the final. In 2017 he was appointed as Senior Rowing Coach at the Imperial College Boat Club.