History of Australian University Championships Rowing

The Harvey Nicholson Trophy for Men's Four, Australian University Championships

This event is named after G Harvey Nicholson, the famous Melbourne University Boat Club President (22 years), Coach and University Championship advocate. Harvey also successfully coached numerous MUBC crews at these Championships with an emphasis on miles trained - his crews were always fit.

Harvey was a star athlete at school captaining rowing and athletics at his school, Scotch College. He was awarded a blue in athletics and skiing but injured himself playing rugby which brought his elite sporting career to an end. He commenced his coaching career somewhat earlier than he would have wanted.

Australian Universities' Men's Four Championship
Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth
1985	University of NSW	University of WA	Melbourne
1986	Deakin	Adelaide	Flinders	ANU	Monash	Melbourne
1987	Adelaide	Monash	New South Wales	Melbourne
1988	Adelaide	Monash	NSW
1989	Adelaide	Melbourne	NSW	LaTrobe	Sydney
1990	Queensland	Adelaide	Melbourne	LaTrobe	New England	Deakin
1991	Adelaide	Sydney	Queensland
1992	NSW	LaTrobe	Queensland
1993	NSW
1994	LaTrobe	Ballarat	Sydney
1995	UTS	Adelaide	RMIT
1996	UTS
1997	Melbourne	UTS	Adelaide	ACU	Queensland	Sydney
1998	RMIT
1999
2000	Curtin	Queensland	Ballarat	ANU	Monash	Melbourne
2001	UTS	NSW	Ballarat	RMIT	Canberra	Melbourne
2002	Queensland	UTS	Sydney	RMIT	New South Wales	Tasmania - Hobart
2003	Queensland	UTS	Western Australia	Sydney	Melbourne	ADFA
2004	Melbourne	Sydney	Queensland	AMC	Western Australia	Newcastle
2005	Sydney	Melbourne	Queensland	Western Australia	NSW	ANU
2006	Melbourne	Sydney	Adelaide	Macquarie	New South Wales	ANU
2007	Sydney	Melbourne	Macquarie	Queensland	Western Australia	Defence Force Academy
2008	Queensland	Sydney	Melbourne	ACPE	ANU	UNSW
2009	Melbourne	Sydney	Queensland	Western Australia	Adelaide	ANU
2010	Sydney	New South Wales	Curtin	Western Australia	Adelaide	Monash
2011	Melbourne	ANU	New South Wales	Adelaide	Sydney	UTS
2012	Sydney	ANU	Melbourne	Adelaide	Western Australia	New South Wales
2013	Sydney	Melbourne	Adelaide	ANU	Monash	New South Wales
2014	Sydney	UTS	Queensland	Melbourne	ANU	Adelaide
2015	UTS	Sydney	Adelaide	ANU	Melbourne	New South Wales

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The idea for this history originated from the Olympic Rowing and World Senior Rowing Championship histories written by Andrew Guerin and Margot Foster in 1991, 1992 & 1993 for the Australian team handbooks. Andrew Guerin developed and extended these histories to the current format in 2004 for publication in 2004 and then expanded the site.

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The Harvey Nicholson Trophy for Men's Four, Australian University Championships

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