1st Combination
They first achieved success seated as Nick Green (bow), Mike McKay (two), Sam Patten (three) and James Tomkins stroke, when they won gold at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington. They were coached by Noel Donaldson a former Victorian and national representative coxswain who had taken to coaching after competitive retirement. Donaldson encouraged periods of relaxtion within the crew's training regime and it's been reported that the rowers spent the morning of that final indulging in a relaxed round of golf.
Read more about this topic: Oarsome Foursome
Famous quotes containing the word combination:
“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners—your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards—who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)