Brian Doyle

Brian John Doyle (18 August 1930 – 1 June 2008) was an Australian Olympic medal winning rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Rowing career Doyle took up rowing at Xavier College in Melbourne. He achieved the rare distinction of rowing in Xavier's first VIII at the APS Head of the River in all four of his senior school years from 1946 to 1949. His senior club rowing was with the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. Doyle was selected in Victorian state representative King's Cup crews contesting the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship at the Australian Rowing Championships on six consecutive occasions from 1952 to 1956. Four of those crews won the King's Cup, with Doyle at stroke on two occasions. Doyle's was selected in the Australian eight to compete at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He stroked the Australian crew to a bronze medal in the final of the eights event.