# Stephen Hawkins

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For others with similar names, see [Steven Hawkins](/source/Steven_Hawkins_(disambiguation)).

Not to be confused with [Stephen Hawking](/source/Stephen_Hawking).

**Stephen Mark Hawkins** [OAM](/source/Order_of_Australia) (born 14 January 1971) is an Australian former national champion, World Champion and Olympic gold medal winning [lightweight rower](/source/Lightweight_rowing).

## Club and state rowing

Hawkins' senior rowing was from the Lindisfarne Rowing Club near Hobart. He commenced contesting the national lightweight single sculls title at the [Australian Rowing Championships](/source/Australian_Rowing_Championships) in 1990, coached by his father Stephen Hawkins Snr.[1] In 1991 he beat out his Tasmanian rival [Simon Burgess](/source/Simon_Burgess) and claimed his first national lightweight championship in the single sculls.[2] He won that same title at [Australian Rowing Championships](/source/Australian_Rowing_Championships) in 1993 and 1994.[3] In 1992 he placed second behind [Peter Antonie](/source/Peter_Antonie) in the heavyweight single sculls Australian championship.[4]

From 1989 to 1994 he was the Tasmanian state representative picked to race the President's Cup – the open heavyweight single scull – at the Interstate Regatta within the [Australian Rowing Championships](/source/Australian_Rowing_Championships). He won the interstate championship for Tasmania in 1993.[5]

## International representative rowing

Hawkins first competed at a FISA event at the [1990 World Rowing Championships](/source/1990_World_Rowing_Championships) in his home state of Tasmania – in a lightweight [quad scull](/source/Quad_scull) with [Burgess](/source/Simon_Burgess), [Gary Lynagh](/source/Gary_Lynagh) and [Bruce Hick](/source/Bruce_Hick). They won the bronze medal.[6] The following year at [Vienna 1991](/source/1991_World_Rowing_Championships) that same crew won gold and a World Championship title. They rowed through the field and won by 0.23 seconds.[7]

In 1992 Hawkins was selected in the Olympic heavyweight double scull with [Peter Antonie](/source/Peter_Antonie) to compete at [Barcelona 1992](/source/1992_Summer_Olympics). Antonie, a veteran of 15 years of international competition was, like Hawkins a lightweight and they were respectively Australia's #1 and #2 ranked scullers ahead of the heavyweights Richard Powell and Jason Day. The selectors felt that Antonie would be unlikely to win the single scull event but using a weight corrected ergo score methodology determined that Antonie and Hawkins together could be competitive in the double. They prepared perfectly, raced superbly and won the Olympic gold.[8][9]

For [Roudnice 1993](/source/1993_World_Rowing_Championships) and [Indianapolis 1994](/source/1994_World_Rowing_Championships) Hawkins was selected as Australia's lightweight single sculler. He rowed to second place and a silver medal in 1993 behind Great Britain's [Peter Haining](/source/Peter_Haining_(rower)). In 1994 he finished in twelfth place.[8][10]

Hawkins was inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame in 2003.[11]

## References

1. [1990 Australian Championships](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1990-1.php#ml1x)

1. [1991 Australian Championships](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1991.php)

1. [Australian Lightweight 1X History at Guerin Foster](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/ML1x%20summary.html)

1. [Australian 1X History at Guerin Foster](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/Men%27s%20Scull%20Summary.html)

1. [1993 President's Cup](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1993.php#M1x)

1. ["Steve Hawkins"](http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/4486/results/hawkins). [International Rowing Federation](/source/International_Rowing_Federation). Retrieved 26 November 2017.

1. [1991 World Championships](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1991-Vienna.php)

1. ["Steve Hawkins"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113707/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/steve-hawkins-1.html). Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/steve-hawkins-1.html) on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2017.

1. [Olympics 1992 at Guerin Foster](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/olympic-games/1992-Barcelona.php)

1. [1994 World Championships](http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1994-Indianapolis.html)

1. ["Stephen Mark Hawkins OAM"](http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csr/sportrec/hall_of_fame/recipients/stephen_mark_hawkins_oam). Department of Premier and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 November 2017.

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