Phillip Gardiner

Phillip Gardiner (born 1952) is an Australian former representative lightweight rower. He was an eight-time Australian national champion and won two bronze medals at World Rowing Championships. He made ten appearances for Australia at World Rowing Championships over the seventeen-year period from 1977 to 1994.

Club and state rowing Gardiner was raised in Sydney and took up rowing as a coxswain in 1961 at the Glebe Rowing Club. He coxed a Glebe men's junior four at the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships.

Gardiner relocated to Melbourne and joined the Melbourne University Boat Club in 1977 in an effort to make the Australian lightweight eight. In Melbourne Uni colours he contested and won the national lightweight eight title twice at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1981 and 1985. He raced in further Penrith Cup fours for Victoria in 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1992 always in the bow seat.

He made the Australian men's lightweight eight on four further occasions and raced in that boat at Bled 1979, Montreal 1984, Hazewinkel 1985 and Lake Barrington 1990. He contested the 1981 World Rowing Championships in a lightweight double scull, the 1992 World Rowing Championships in Australia's lightweight four and the 1994 World Rowing Championships in a lightweight pair.

Rowing palmares 1981 National Championships Men's Lightweight Eight bow - First 1985 National Championships Men's Lightweight Four bow – First 1977 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship emergency 1979 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First 1980 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Third 1983 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship emergency 1984 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First 1985 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow – First 1986 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First 1987 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Second 1988 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First 1990 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - First 1992 – Interstate Men's Lightweight Four Championship bow - Second 1977 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Bronze 1978 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight three seat – Bronze 1979 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Sixth 1980 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Four reserve 1981 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Double Scull bow – Eleventh 1984 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Tenth 1985 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight two seat – Fifth 1990 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Eight bow – Fifth 1992 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Four bow – Eighth 1994 World Rowing Championships – Men's Lightweight Pair bow - Eighth