Crawshay talks to World Rowing about his current training as well as his political thoughts. Crawshay squeezes much more than rowing into his life. Learn more about this remarkable athlete. World Rowing: So how did the rowing in your life begin?
David Crawshay: I came from a sporty family, although ironically I was not sporty myself when I was young. I enjoyed running around but I did not take enough of an interest to be good at any team sports.
I swam in the summer, and played football Aussie Rules in the winter. It was only when I was in year 8 at my school age 14 , Melbourne Grammar, that I went down to the Yarra River to first set foot in a boat.
I loved it so much that I also decided to go out in a scull one day. After falling in twice remember that the Yarra is not the cleanest of rivers I even had a soft spot for it too! I progressed through school, and ended up winning our season-ending Head of the River regatta on a m course with a kink in the middle.
This remained a highlight of my rowing career till much later on. From school I went down to Mercantile Rowing Club home of most of the Oarsome Foursome and rowed in their youth and under squads. This was around the time of the Sydney Olympics.
