Darcy Wruck (born 16 January 1995) is an Australian rower. He has represented at underage and senior world championships and won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in an Australian coxed pair.

Darcy Wruck
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1995-01-16) 16 January 1995 (age 29)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Sarasota Coxed pair

Club and state rowing edit

Queensland state representation first came for Wruck in the 2013 youth eight which contested the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[1] He rowed again in the Queensland youth eight in 2014 and 2015[2]

Wruck made the 2016 Queensland senior men's eight competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[3] He contested further King's Cups in Queensland maroon in 2017 and 2018.[4]

International representative rowing edit

Wruck made his Australian representative debut at the 2013 Junior World Rowing Championships in Trakai in an Australian junior coxed four which raced to a seventh place finish.[5] In 2016 he rowed in the eight at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam.[5]

The following year Wruck was tested in various sweep-oared boats in the international season of the Australian senior squad. He raced in the eight to a fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and in a coxless four at the WRC III in Lucerne. Then at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota and teamed with Angus Widdicombe, Wruck rowed a coxed pair bearing James Rook up front, to a silver medal.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "2013 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  2. ^ "2014 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  3. ^ "2015 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  4. ^ "2017 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Wruck at World Rowing