Mark Doyle
Personal information
Full nameMarcus Andrew Doyle
Born29 May 1963 (1963-05-29) (age 60)
Melbourne, Australia
Alma materXavier College
Years active1982-1988
Height193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight193 cm / 91 kg
Sport
SportRowing
ClubMercantile Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
National finalsKing's Cup 1982-1988
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1986 Nottingham M8+
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Edinburgh Eight
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Edinburgh Coxed Four

Marcus Andrew "Mark" Doyle (born 29 May 1963) is an Australian former national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower.

Club and state rowing

Doyle was born in Melbourne and commenced his rowing career at Xavier College. His senior rowing was with Mercantile Rowing Club where his father Brian Doyle was a club stalwart and coach.

Doyle represented Victoria at the Australian Rowing Championships in the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship – the King's Cup on six occasions from 1982 to 1988. He was in consecutive winning Victorian crews from 1985 to 1988.[1]

In Mercantile colours he contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on various occasions. He raced for the coxed four title in 1983,[2] and both the men's pair and coxed four in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.[3] He won the 1986 Australian coxed four championship in a Mercantile crew with his older brother David.[4]

International representative rowing

Doyle's first national representative selection was to the 1982 Match des Seniors in Vienna, Austria - the equivalent at the time of today's World Rowing U23 Championships. Doyle rowed in the coxless pair with his brother David to a gold medal victory.[5]

Doyle's first senior representative selection was to 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England. He rowed in the two seat of the victorious Australian men's eight. It was Australia's first and only World Championship title in the men's VIII.[6] That same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, in that same crew Doyle won gold in the Australian men's VIII. Doyle also rowed in a coxed four to a bronze medal at those same games.[7]

At the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen Doyle was again in the five seat of Australian eight. That crew placed fourth.[8] For the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Doyle rowed in the five seat of the men's eight to a fifth placing.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Doyle Career at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  2. ↑ 1981 Australian Championships
  3. ↑ 1982 Australian Championships
  4. ↑ 1986 Australian Championships
  5. ↑ "Vienna 1982". Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "1986 World Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "1986 Commonwealth Games". Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Mark Doyle at World Rowing
  9. ↑ "1988 Olympics at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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