Samuel Patten
Orthopaedic surgeon | |
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
|---|---|
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) |
| Relative | Barry Patten (father) |
| Sport | |
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | 1992 Men's eight |
Medal record | |
| Updated on 22 August 2016. | |
Samuel Patten (born 23 May 1963) is a former Australian World Champion
Club and state rowing career
The son of Olympic alpine skier and noted architect, Barry Patten, Samuel Patten took up rowing at Scotch College, Melbourne. His senior club rowing was with the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.
Patten was selected in Victorian state representative King's Cup crews contesting the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990. He saw victories in 1987–88 and 1989–90. He was selected in the 1992 King's Cup eight but withdrew due to injury.[1]
International representative rowing
World Championships
Patten's first Australian selection was in the coxed four who placed fourth at the 1981 World Junior Championships.[2] Two years later he was a member of the Australian men's senior eight who won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany.[3]
Patten won a World Championship in first incarnation of Australia's Oarsome Foursome coxless four at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington, Tasmania. He was seated at three, with Nick Green (bow), Mike McKay (two) and James Tomkins (stroke), and achieved his first and only world championship gold medal.[4][5]
Olympics
Patten first Australian Olympic representative selection was the men's eight who took the bronze medal at Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.[6]
At the Olympic games in Seoul 1988 Patten and Malcolm Batten were selected in the squad as reserves for the eight and qualified a coxless pair. They raced in heats and were eliminated in the repechage.[7] Patten's last Australian representative selection was in the men's eight at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. That crew placed fifth.[6]
Selector/administrator
From 1993 to 1996 Patten was a selector for Victorian states crews. In those same years he was on the Australian Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission.
From 1996 to 1997 he was a board member of Rowing Australia.
Surgical career
Graduating from
References
- ^ Patten's career at Guerin Foster
- ^ 1981 World Junior Championships
- ^ FISA – The Official World Rowing Database. "1983 World Championships – Duisburg Wedau, Germany".
- ^ Guerin, Andrew; Foster, Margot (2005). "1990 World Championships — Lake Barrington Australia". History of Australian Rowing. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ Samuel Patten at World Rowing
- ^ a b "Sam Patten". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ 1988 Olympics at Guerin Foster
- ^ Patten at Melb Orthopaedics
- ^ Melbourne Orthopaedics
