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.
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