Matt Ryan (rower)
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  Australia
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| Men's Rowing | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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2008 Beijing | Coxless four |
| World Rowing Championships | ||
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2009 Poznań | M4- |
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2010 Karapiro | M8+ |
Matthew "Matt" Ryan (born 23 June 1984 in Sydney) is a retired Australian rower who has represented at two Olympic Games.
Ryan competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal in Coxless four. In London 2012 he rowed in the Australian men's eight which placed 6th.
Ryan began his rowing at The King's School, Parramatta and was part of the First VIII crew in 2001 and 2002 that won the AAGPS Head of the River. The 2001 crew which also contained fellow future Australian senior national team rowers Nicholas Hudson and Sam Loch, also went on to win the Barrington Cup to be crowned National Schoolboy champions. In addition to this, the 2001 crew won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. In 2002, Ryan stroked the Australian Junior Coxed Four to a gold medal at the World Junior Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.
Continuing to move through the underage ranks, Ryan was a bronze medallist in 2003 in the Men's Eight at the Nations Cup regatta (now the World Under 23 Championships) in Belgrade, Serbia. The following year, Ryan returned to the top of the podium at the World Under 23 Regatta in Poznan, Poland in an all-New South Wales, Coxed Four.
In 2005, Ryan was part of the Sydney University Boat Club crew that won the QL Deloitte Trophy as the Champion Eight of New South Wales, breaking a four-year winning streak of UTS Haberfield Rowing Club. It was the start of a 10-year winning streak for Sydney University Boat Club in this event (2005-2014). Later that year, Ryan made in debut in the senior Australian team, placing 9th at the World Championships in Gifu, Japan. The following year, Ryan placed 4th as part of the Men's Eight in Eton, United Kingdom. The next year in Munich, Germany, Ryan's crew placed 2nd in the B Final of the Men's Eight behind Russia to place 8th overall. This was later improved to a 7th placing overall due to the members of the Russian crew failing doping tests.
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