Mike McKay (rower)

Michael McKay ( born September 30, 1964 in Melbourne, Australia), better known as Mike McKay, is an Australian rower and two-time Olympic champion.

In 1990 he began rowing coxless with Nick Green, Sam Patten and James Tomkins in the quad. First successes came quickly: in 1990 and 1991, they won already at the World Rowing Championships. After Sam Patten was replaced by Andrew Cooper, the gold medal followed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. This success could be repeated four years later at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (where Drew Ginn Andrew Cooper replaced ).

As the successful team soon disbanded it, McKay moved with respect to the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 in the eighth. The Australian boat had been traded in advance as favorite. In the final, but were defeated by the British boat to just eight tenths of a second. McKay was in 2004 in Athens back in the Australian eighth. There they classified themselves in third place behind the United States and the Netherlands.

1993 got McKay and the other members of the Olympic team of the Order of Australia in 1992 awarded. In 2007, McKay also received the Thomas Keller Medal by the International Rowing Federation FISA.

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