James Rook (rowing)
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| Born | 18 November 1997 Malvern, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Scotch College Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Coxed pair, Eight | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club Melbourne University Boat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Tom Westgarth | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | Tokyo 2020 W8+ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | King's Cup 2017-19, 2022 Queen's Cup 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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James Rook (born 18 November 1997) is an Australian national representative rowing coxswain. He is an Olympian and a medallist at the 2017, 2018 and 2019 World Rowing Championships and a winner of the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta. He is notable for becoming in 2018 the first Australian male coxswain to steer a representative Australian female crew under the FISA gender-neutral coxswain selection policy change of 2017. He coxed the Australian women's eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.