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Darcy Wruck

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Darcy Wruck
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1995-01-16) 16 January 1995 (age 29)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Sarasota Coxed pair

Darcy Wruck (born 16 January 1995) is an Australian rower. He has represented at underage and senior world championships and won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in an Australian coxed pair.

Club and state rowing

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Queensland state representation first came for Wruck in the 2013 youth eight which contested the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[1] He rowed again in the Queensland youth eight in 2014 and 2015[2]

Wruck made the 2016 Queensland senior men's eight competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[3] He contested further King's Cups in Queensland maroon in 2017 and 2018.[4]

International representative rowing

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Wruck made his Australian representative debut at the 2013 Junior World Rowing Championships in Trakai in an Australian junior coxed four which raced to a seventh place finish.[5] In 2016 he rowed in the eight at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam.[5]

The following year Wruck was tested in various sweep-oared boats in the international season of the Australian senior squad. He raced in the eight to a fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and in a coxless four at the WRC III in Lucerne. Then at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota and teamed with Angus Widdicombe, Wruck rowed a coxed pair bearing James Rook up front, to a silver medal.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "2013 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  2. ^ "2014 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  3. ^ "2015 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  4. ^ "2017 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Wruck at World Rowing