Edward Healey

Haberfield Rowing Club (NSW) then Sydney Rowing Club (NSW)

Kevyn Webb in his 25 year history of Haberfield Rowing Club in 1950 wrote the following profile on Edward Healey.

Ted came to Haberfield in late 1940 and coxed our crews almost without a break to 1949. In that period he won 76 races. His first State Championship was won in 1946, when he coxed the Haberfield Champion Eight. The 1946 King's Cup Crew at Penrith followed. Won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1946, the 1947 Champion Eight and Australian Championship races were both raced by Healey. Was cox of the winning crew in the N.S.W. Olympic Test races, and the crew which finished second in the Australian Test Race at Ballarat.

His greatest win came in 1948, when Haberfield rowing in N.S.W. colours won the King's Cup and Australian Championship Eights in Hobart, Tasmania. After a period of forced retirement caused by working in the country, Ted Healey returned to the sport this year [1950], coxing the "Guinea Pig" Eight in the State Championship and coaching the Sydney Rowing Club's Junior Champion Eight.

Victorious 1948 team - Ted front centre

Andrew Guerin
July 2024

Sources:

Haberfield Rowing Club, the first 25 years by Kevyn Webb, self published in 1950.
Image from the Guerin collection

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