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{{short description|Australian rower}}
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| sport            = Rowing
| club             = Wendouree Ballarat Rowing Club
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]}}
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{{MedalCompetition | [[World Rowing Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1997 World Rowing Championships|1997 Aiguebelette]] | LM8+}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Rowing U23 Championships|U23 World Championships]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[World Rowing U23 Championships|U23 1995 Groningen]] | LM4-}}
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'''Tim Wright''' (born 18 February 1973) is an Australian former world champion [[lightweight rowing|lightweight rower]]. He won a gold medal at the [[1997 World Rowing Championships]] in [[Aiguebelette-le-Lac|Aiguebelette]] with the lightweight men's [[Eight (rowing)|eight]].<ref name="FISA profile">{{cite web |title= Tim Wright |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/12050/ |publisher=[[International Rowing Federation]] |access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
==Club and state rowing==
Wright took up rowing at Ballarat High School as a coxswain. His senior rowing was from the Wendouree-Ballarat Rowing Club.<ref name="AusCareer" />
Richards rowed in Victorian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the [[Australian Rowing Championships]] in 1997 and 1999.<ref name="AusCareer">[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-24.php#Wright Wright's career at Guerin Foster]</ref>
==International representative rowing==
Wright first represented Australia in the lightweight coxless at the 1994  [[World Rowing U23 Championships]] in Paris where the Australians finished fourth.<ref name="Career">[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/tim-wright?id=12050 Wright at World Rowing]</ref> The following year at Groningen in The Netherlands he again raced at the U23 World Championships in the lightweight coxless four and they won the silver medal.<ref name="Career" />
In 1997 he made his debut in an Australian senior crew seated in the bow of the men's lightweight eight. At the [[1997 World Rowing Championships]] in Aiguebelette, the Australians won a thrilling final by 0.03 seconds with only 1.5 lengths separating the field. Wright won his first and only World Championship title in his only senior World Championship appearance.<ref name="Career" />
==References==
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* {{FISA|12050|Tim Wright}}
{{World champions – Lightweight men's eight}}
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[[Category:1973 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian male rowers]]
[[Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]]