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Russell "Rusty" Robertson {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (1927–1989) was a New Zealand born, world class rowing coach of New Zealand and later, Australian national representative rowing crews. He was the national rowing coach of New Zealand from 1967 to 1976, and the national coach of Australia from 1979 to 1984.

Early life

Robertson was born in 1927.^[1] He was from Oamaru in Otago and commenced rowing at the age of 16 at the Oamaru Rowing Club. A serious car accident broke his back and forced a premature retirement from rowing and an early start to coaching. He coached Oamaru crews for many years and was Club Captain for a decade. ^[1] At {{convert|300|m}} long, his home town has the shortest rowing course in the country, and Robertson devised a training method by which rowers would use one arm only and go round and round in circles.^[2]

NZ coaching career

Robertson first had representative success at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, where an Oamaru coxed four he coached of Winston Stephens, Keith Heselwood, Hugh Smedley, George Paterson, and Douglas Pulman as cox, won the gold and became Commonwealth champions.^[3] His first Olympic success came at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where his coxed four Warren Cole, Ross Collinge, Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, and Simon Dickie as cox won gold.^[3]^[4] This 1968 Olympic win marked the beginning of New Zealand's first golden era in rowing, and would last until the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[5] Both the 1968 coxed four and Robertson would later be inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.^[3]^[6]

Robertson's career highlight was when his 1972 New Zealand eight won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.^[3] The New Zealand crew was regarded as race favourites and whilst they did not dominate in the qualifying heats, they won the final comfortably.^[7] The champion 1972 New Zealand eight won Sportsman of the Year Awards in both 1971 and 1972. The crew standing on the victory dais overcome with emotion and "bawling like babies" is one of New Zealand's most memorable sporting moments.^[8]^[9] One of the crewmembers, bowman Gary Robertson, is Rusty's nephew.^[10]

Four years later, when the men's eight only managed third place at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Robertson was dismissed as the national rowing coach. He went to Australia to continue his coaching career^[3]

Australian coaching career

Relocating to Sydney Robertson took on a senior coaching role at the Drummoyne Rowing Club. He was involved in schoolboy coaching with the Sydney Grammar School and was in charge in 1978 when Grammar eights took both the 1st and 2nd VIII titles at the GPS Head of the River following a 22 year drought.

Robertson coached Drummoyne rowers and scullers, lightweight and heavyweight in competition for national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1978. He was coach of New South Wales state senior eights competing in the Interstate Eight-Oared Championship (the King's Cup) in 1979, 1983, 1984 (to victory), 1985, 1987 and 1988.

He coached the Australian men's lightweight coxless four to World Championship victories in 1980 and 1981. The crew consisted of his Drummoyne clubmen Graham Gardiner and Clyde Hefer who throughout 1980 had vied for top national honours against the Victorian pair of Charles Bartlett and Simon Gillett. New Australian National Director of Coaching Reinhold Batschi had introduced a small boat racing selection methodology and the choice of the two competitively matched pairs to comprise the Australian IV was clear.^[12] The crew took the gold medal and won Australia's second lightweight World Championship title.^[13] The following year the same crew raced at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich and successfully defended their title.^[14]

In 1983 he coached the Australian men's lightweight eight consisting of Victorian, Tasmanian and West Australian oarsmen to a silver medal at Duisberg 1983.

For the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the men's eight coach was one of the first appointments to be determined. Robertson was the prominent men's coach at the time but the appointment went to Roberston's boss Reinhold Batschi, National Coaching Director though not an active coach at the time. Robertson took the men's quad scull and coached them to a silver olympic medal.^[15]

Commemoration

Robertson died in 1989.^[3] A Rusty Robertson Cup regatta is held annually in Australia.^[16] The New South Wales Rowing Association (NSWRA) awards 'the Rusty Robertson MBE Award for services to rowing'. Their by-law reads:^[17]

International representative coaching record

New Zealand

Australia

References

1. ^Rusty Robertson at Guerin Foster
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Rattue |first1=Chris|title=Rowing: Fascination with pain adds to rowing's odd mystique |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10119322 |accessdate=23 October 2016|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=7 April 2005}}
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶{{cite web |title=Rusty Robertson |url=http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/R/Rusty-Robertson.aspx |publisher=New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame|accessdate=22 October 2016}}
4. ^{{cite web |title=Rowing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/ROW/mens-coxed-fours.html |publisher=Sports Reference |accessdate=23 October 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web |last1=Romanos |first1=Joseph |authorlink1=Joseph Romanos |title=Olympic and Commonwealth games - Rowing, athletics and hockey – late 1960s and 1970s at the Olympics |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/olympic-and-commonwealth-games/page-3 |publisher=The Encyclopedia of New Zealand| accessdate=23 October 2016}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Coxed Four, 1968 |url=http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/C/Coxed-four-1968 |publisher=New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=23 October 2016}}
7. ^{{Cite sports-reference | Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights Final Round | https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ROW/mens-coxed-eights-final-round.html | 23 October 2016}}
8. ^{{cite news |last1=Leggat |first1=David |title=New Zealand's Greatest Olympians - Number 7: The 1972 rowing eight |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11683538 |accessdate=23 October 2016 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=30 July 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web |title=1970's [sic] |url=http://www.halbergawards.co.nz/about/past-winners/1970s |publisher=Halberg Awards |accessdate=23 October 2016 }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
10. ^{{cite web |title=Gary Robertson |url=http://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/gary-robertson/ |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |accessdate=23 October 2016}}
11. ^{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=David|title=Rowing - International rowing, 1920s to 1980s|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/rowing/page-4|publisher=The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|accessdate=22 October 2016}}
12. ^1980 World C'ships at Guerin Foster
13. ^{{cite web |title= Graham Gardiner |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/36903/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=13 November 2017}}
14. ^1980 World C'ships at Guerin Foster
15. ^1984 Olympics at Guerin Foster
16. ^{{cite news |last1=Tiriana |first1=Craig |title=Olympics success beckons |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503436&objectid=10977826 |accessdate=23 October 2016 |work=The Daily Post |date=24 December 2008}}
17. ^{{cite web |title=Board Meeting |url=https://www.rowingnsw.asn.au/files/minutes/bm_2010_08_18.pdf |publisher=New South Wales Rowing Association |accessdate=22 October 2016 |format=PDF |date=18 August 2010}}