Lyall McCarthy

Lyall McCarthy OAM (born 19 May 1956)[1] is a former Australian national champion lightweight rower and national rowing coach. He has coached Australian crews to gold medals at the World Rowing Championships and the Olympic Games.

Lyall McCarthy
Australian Institute of Sport women's rowing coach Lyall McCarthy
Personal information
Born (1956-05-19) 19 May 1956
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Rowing Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Copenhagen Lwt men's eight

Club and state rowing

McCarthy competed as a lightweight oarsman and rowed for a number of clubs in Sydney and in Melbourne over a fifteen year first class rowing career from 1977 to 1992.

He contested national championships titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in Drummoyne Rowing Club lightweight crews in 1977 and 1978.[2] In 1980 he competed for the national lightweight pair title racing for the Mercantile Rowing Club.[3] In 1981 he moved to the Melbourne University Boat Club, the home of the world champions Simon Gillett and Charles Bartlett. He won his first Australian national title in MUBC colours in a lightweight eight with Gillett, Bartlett and Peter Antonie and also contested the national lightweight coxless four title that year.[4] In 1982 he was back in Sydney and raced for the Balmain Rowing Club at the Australian Championships that year contesting the national men's lightweight eight title.[5] In 1985 he contested the national lightweight eight championship in a composite Sydney crew.[6]

In 1981 McCarthy was first selected as a Victorian state representative to contest the Penrith Cup for lightweight fours in the Interstate regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[7] In 1985 he raced for New South Wales in that same event. In 1990 he was back in Victorian dark blue for that event and that year they won the interstate championship title.[8] His final state appearance in the Penrith Cup was in 1992 competing for Victoria.[9]

International representative rowing

His first major international event was the 1978 FISA Lightweight Championships where he won a bronze medal in the Australian men’s lightweight eight. It was twelve years before he again held a seat in the Australian lightweight eight in 1990 at the World Championships for a fifth placing. He represented again at the 1991 and 1992 World Championships and retired in 1992.[10]

Coaching career

McCarthy began coaching in 1994 with the Barwon Rowing Club at Geelong, Victoria and was appointed Australian Institute of Sport/Rowing Australia's Head Women's Coach located in Canberra in 1997.[10] After the 2016 Rio Olympics, he was appointed Rowing Australia's Pathways Head Coach.[11]

McCarthy's coaching medal record at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

Olympic Games
  • 1996 Sixth – Men's Lightweight Coxless Four[12]
  • 2000 Fifth – Women's Eight[12]
  • 2004 Bronze medal – Women's Quad Scull[12]
  • 2008 Sixth – Women's Eight  ; Tenth – Women's Pair[12]
  • 2012 Silver medal – Women's Double Scull ; Bronze medal – Women's Single Scull (Kim Crow)[12]
  • 2016 Gold medal – Women's Single Scull (Kim Brennan nee Crow)[12]

World Championships

McCarthy coached crews at the World Championships and was appointed Head Women's Coach for 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Championships.[13]

  • 1995 Ninth – Men's Lightweight Coxless Pair ; Tenth – Men's Lightweight Coxless Four[13]
  • 1997 Gold medal – Men's Lightweight Eight[14][13]
  • 1998 Fifth – Men's Lightweight Coxless Pair[13]
  • 2001 Gold medal – Women's Four ; Gold medal – Women's Eights[14][13]
  • 2002 Gold medal – Women's Four ; Silver medal – Women's Eights;[14] Sixth – Women's Pair[13]
  • 2003 Gold Medal – Women's Quadruple Scull ; Sixth – Women's Double Scull ; Eighteenth – Women's Single Scull[13]
  • 2005 Silver medal- Women's Pair ; Bronze medal – Women's Double Scull ; Seventh – Women's Single Scull[13]
  • 2006 Silver medal- Women's Quad Scull[13]
  • 2007 Fourth – Women's Eights[13]
  • 2010 Silver medal – Women's Double Scull ; Fourth – Women's Quad Scull[13]
  • 2011 Silver medal – Women's Double Scull[13]
  • 2013 Gold medal – Women's Single Scull (Kim Crow)[13]
  • 2014 Silver medal – Women's Single Scull (Kim Crow)[13]
  • 2015 Gold medal – Women's Single Scull (Kim Crow)
  • 2022 Bronze medal – Men's Double Scull[14][13]

Recognition

In 2003 and 2005, he was named Australian Institute of Sport Coach of the Year. In 2015 and 2016, he was Rowing Australia's Coach of the Year. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia for service to rowing.[15]

References
  1. "Lyall McCarthy". World Rowing. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  2. 1978 Austn C'ships
  3. 1980 Austn C'ships
  4. 1981 Austn C'ships
  5. 1982 Austn C'ships
  6. 1985 Austn C'ships
  7. "1981 Austn C'ships". Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  8. "1990 Austn C'ships". Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  9. "1992 Austn C'ships". Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  10. "Rowing at the Australian Institute of Sport". Australian Sports Commission website 2000 archived. Archived from the original on 19 January 2000. Retrieved 19 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. "Lyall McCarthy". Rowing Australia website. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  12. "Olympic Games". History of Australian Rowing website. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  13. "Australia's World Championship Medallists". History of Australian Rowing website. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. "Lyall McCarthy — world champion rowing coach" (PDF). Ausport Magazine. 1 (2). December 2003. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  15. "AOC congratulates Dawn Fraser and Olympians named in Queens Birthday Honours". Australian Olympic Committee website. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
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