Dungog rower hot prospect for Rio Olympics

The event was also the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic qualification regatta with Turrin taking out the silver in the coxless four.

Turrin, who attended primary school in Dungog, started rowing at St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill in high school and joined Sydney Rowing Club (SRC) in 2006.

In 2010 he won silver at the Australian Youth Cup in the eight and the coxless four and bronze in the coxless pair.

The 24-year-old won silver at the Australian Rowing Championships in the Interstate Men’s Youth eight in 2011.

He teamed up with SRC’s Alex Lloyd in a coxless pair in 2012 and the partnership has gone from strength to strength with both being offered scholarships to the Australian Institute of Sport.

They continued to row in a coxless pair and won silver at the national championships in 2012. 

They were then selected to row in Australia’s second A coxless four at Rowing World Cup 1 in Sydney, where they also won a silver medal.

At the following national selection trials, Turrin and Lloyd won the coxless pair and were selected into the Australian coxless four, which is Australia’s priority boat.

The crew won gold at the World Cup at Eton, Dorney, in 2013.

At the World Championships in 2013 in Chungju, South Korea, the crew were placed second in the final after the Dutch crew stole the gold medal from them in a heartbreaker, by a split second.

Last year they won the Champion Pair of NSW, the Champion Four of NSW and the King’s Cup.

At the World Cup 1 in Sydney, they rowed in the winning Australian coxless four and the winning Australian eight.

At the 2014 Australian Rowing Championships, they were placed second in the coxless pair, then went on to earn the number one ranking in the coxless pair and coxless four at the Australian Rowing Team selection trials.

In the final of last year’s World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, their coxless four won the bronze medal.