Fergus Hamilton
Fergus Hamilton (born 29 January 2000) is an Australian representative rower. He was a 2017 World Junior Champion and in 2023 made the Australian senior squad.
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 January 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Club and varsity rowing
Hamilton attended Melbourne Grammar School where he took up rowing. He was Captain of Boats in his senior year. His senior club rowing has been from Melbourne's Mercantile Rowing Club. His father Richard Hamilton was an Olympian rower for Great Britain at Atlanta 1996.
Fergus Hamilton won a place a Yale University to study environmental science. He rowed in the men's heavyweight crews in his freshman and second years. In the 2019/20 season he rowed in the six seat of the Yale senior eight which won the collegiate title at the Head of the Charles.[1]
International representative rowing
Being in the varsity program at Yale, Hamilton found himself selected to Australian underage squads before having rowed for his state of Victoria. His Australian representative debut came in 2017 when selected in a double-scull to contest the Junior World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania. Racing with Cormac Kennedy-Leverett they won their heat, semi-final and final to take the Junior World Championship title.[2][3]
Leading up to the 2022 World Rowing U23 Championships Hamilton rowed in the U23 men's eight competing as an Australia 2 crew at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. Two weeks later in that crew he won a bronze medal at the U23 World Championships in Varese.[3]
In 2023 Hamilton was a late selection into the Australian men's senior sweep squad for the international season. At the Rowing World Cup III in Lucerne Switzerland, Hamilton raced as Australia's men's pair entrant with Simon Keenan.[3] They won the B final for an overall seventh placing.[3] Hamilton and Keenan were selected to race Australia's coxless pair at 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. They won their heat, progressed through quarters and semis and ultimately placed 2nd in the B final for an overall eight place world ranking.[3] In the process they qualified an Australian men's coxless pair for Paris 2024.