Colin Smith

Colin Smith is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an eight time national champion and rowed in the lightweight men's four which won Australia's first rowing World Championship title – a gold medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne . During his career Smith won four medals at World Championship events. Club and state rowing Smith's senior rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 1975 and 1977 he won a national championship title in the lightweight four. In 1979, he won a national title in the lightweight eight. Smith was first selected in South Australian state representative lightweight fours to contest the Penrith Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1970 to 1973. After relocating to Victoria in 1974, he was selected in Victorian representative crews in 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1979. He was in crews that won the interstate championship on five occasions. National representative rowing Smith was selected for Australian representative honours in a lightweight coxless four for the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne. That crew won Australia's first gold medal at a FISA World Rowing Championship.