{{short description|Australian rower}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Nick Hudson | headercolor = skyblue | birth_name = | image = Nick Hudson.jpg | image_size = 220px | alt = | caption = Hudson (left), Sam Loch and Dan Noonan after the New South Wales King's Cup victory of 2009. | fullname = | nationality = | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|10|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sydney | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | years_active = 1998–2015 | country = Australia | sport = Rowing | event = | collegeteam = | club = Sydney University Boat Club. | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | highestranking = | pb = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's rowing }} {{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }} {{MedalSilver | 2009 Poznań | M4x }} {{MedalCompetition | U23 World Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2003 Belgrade | M4x }} {{MedalBronze | 2004 Poznan | M4x }} }} '''Nick Hudson''' (born 7 October 1983, in Sydney) is an Australian former rower.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://twitter.com/HuddoHuddo/status/579496206327365632 | title = Nicholas Hudson on Twitter | website = Twitter | access-date = 25 February 2016 }}</ref> He was an U23 world champion, an Australian national champion and was a silver medallist at the 2009 World Championships.
==Club and state rowing== Hudson was educated at The King's School, Parramatta where he took up rowing. He stroked the school's first VIII in 2000 to a 5th placing at the AAGPS Head of the River.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowingnsw.asn.au/regattas/99-00/gpshotr/results.html#R6 | title = AAGPS Head of the River, 25 Mar 2000 – Results | website = www.rowingnsw.asn.au | access-date = 25 February 2016 }}</ref> The following year he was in the King's School's successful first VIII of 2001 – along with other future Australian representatives Matt Ryan and Sam Loch – which won at the AAGPS Head of the River.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowingnsw.asn.au/regattas/00-01/gpshotr/results.html#R9 | title = AAGPS Head of the River, 31 Mar 2001 – Results | website = www.rowingnsw.asn.au | access-date = 25 February 2016 }}</ref> The crew went on to win the Barrington Cup at the National Championships and the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta later that year.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/MSch8%20Summary.html | title = Rowing History – Australia; Schoolboy Eight | last = | first = | date = | website = | publisher = | access-date = | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181005170207/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/MSch8%20Summary.html | archive-date = 5 October 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Hudson's senior club rowing was from the Sydney University Boat Club.
Domestically while racing for his state, New South Wales, Hudson has won the Noel F Wilkinson Cup for Youth Eights in 2003, stroking the crew to a win by almost five seconds.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2003.php | title = 2003 Interstate Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180701164929/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2003.php | archive-date = 1 July 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He made his Kings Cup debut for New South Wales in 2007 placing 2nd behind Victoria.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2007.php | title = 2007 Interstate Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180505204719/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2007.php | archive-date = 5 May 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Hudson returned to the New South Wales Kings Cup crew in 2009, recording a dominant victory by over five seconds.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2009.php | title = 2009 Interstate Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180412211928/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2009.php | archive-date = 12 April 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Hudson won his second Kings Cup in 2010 and was selected in the crew again in 2012, where New South Wales won, making Hudson a three-time winner of the event.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2010.php | title = 2010 Interstate Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180618175306/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2010.php | archive-date = 18 June 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2012.php | title = Interstate Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180921153345/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2012.php | archive-date = 21 September 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
==International representative rowing== Hudson first represented for Australia in 2003. He raced in a quad scull World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before contesting the Nations Cup (now the World Rowing U23 Championships) in Belgrade, Serbia. Hudson was in a quad scull with Eugene Arendsen, Henry Gundry and Tom Westgarth which won a gold medal.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-u23-championships/2003-Belgrade.php | title = 2003 World Under 23 Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060820/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-u23-championships/2003-Belgrade.php | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> At the 2004 World Rowing U23 Championships Hudson was again a member of the Australian Quad Scull, this time winning the bronze medal.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-u23-championships/2004-Poznan.php | title = 2004 World Under 23 Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 }}</ref>
Five years later, Hudson made his debut in the Australian senior team, winning a silver medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2009-Poznan.php | title = World Championships – Australian Rowing History | website = www.rowinghistory-aus.info | access-date = 26 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180618052906/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2009-Poznan.php | archive-date = 18 June 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Hudson again made the A Final the following year at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. Racing in a men's double scull with Jared Bidwell, they placed fifth.
At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Hudson competed in the men's single scull giving him senior national representation across the full range of sculling boats in the space of just three years. He placed eighteenth in what would be his last World Championship appearance for Australia.<ref name="Career">[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/nick-hudson?id=17412 Hudson at World Rowing]</ref>
He was vying for a seat in the Australian men's eight for the 2012 London Olympics but missed selection and raced in a coxless pair with Fergus Pragnell at the World Rowing Cups II and III in Europe that year and was a reserve for the Olympic heavyweight squad. In 2014 he competed in the double scull and the quad at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney, winning gold in the quad.<ref name="Career" /> Hudson announced his retirement from competitive rowing in March 2015, on the eve of the Australian Rowing Championships.
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==External links== {{Commons category|Nick Hudson}} * {{FISA|17412|Nick Hudson}}
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