Josh Dunkley-Smith
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Josh Dunkley-Smith (born 28 June 1989) is an Australian rower. A dual Olympian and two time silver Olympic medal winner, he was born and lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Personal
Dunkley-Smith attended Albert Park Primary and learnt to row at Geelong College. He studied for a BArts in Journalism at Monash University. After his return from the Olympics in 2012, Dunkley-Smith took up coaching at Melbourne Girls Grammar.
His mother Addy Bucek is a former Australian Olympic sailing representative.
Club and national career
Dunkley-Smith rows from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. On seven consecutive occasions from 2010 to 2016 Dunkley-Smith was seated in the Victorian Men's VIII who contested the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships.[1] In those crews he saw two King's Cup victories and four times placed second. He stroked that crew in four King's Cup races.
International career
At the 2012 London Olympics, Dunkley-Smith won a silver medal in the Australian men's coxless four with Drew Ginn, James Chapman, and Will Lockwood. Ginn's presence in the crew gave it a lineage to the successful Australian M4- crews of the 1990s that were known as Oarsome Foursomes.[2]
In 2016 along with Will Lockwood, Joshua Booth, and Alexander Hill, Dunkley-Smith was selected in the Australian Men's Coxless four to compete at Rio 2016. They won their heat and semi-final and took the silver medal behind Great Britain in the final.
References
- Josh Dunkley-Smith at WorldRowing.com from FISA