Mark Doyle

Mark Doyle (born 29 May 1963) is an Australian former national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning rower. Club and state rowing Doyle was born in Melbourne and commenced his rowing career at Xavier College. His senior rowing was with Mercantile Rowing Club where his father Brian Doyle was a club stalwart and coach. Doyle represented Victoria at the Australian Rowing Championships in the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship – the King's Cup on six occasions from 1982 to 1988. He was in consecutive winning Victorian crews from 1985 to 1988. In Mercantile colours he contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on various occasions. He raced for the coxed four title in 1983, and both the men's pair and coxed four in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987. He won the 1986 Australian coxed four championship in a Mercantile crew with his older brother David.