AIS Rowing has a proud record of achievement at Olympic Games and World Championship level. Since 1988, current or former AIS rowers have won 12 Olympic medals, including three gold. AIS rowers have also won more than a dozen World Championship medals including the historic 1986 win in the blue ribbon men's eight event. Coached by AIS Head Coach Reinhold Batschi, this is the only victory in that event in Australian rowing history.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, 21 current and 21 former AIS scholarship holders were selected in the Australian team.

Rowers to come through the AIS program include James Tomkins, Drew Ginn, Michael McKay, Andrew Cooper, Steve Evans, James Galloway, Jamie Fernandez, Robert Jahrling, Nick Porzig, Brett Hayman, Bruce Hick, Megan Still, Kate Slatter, Rachael Taylor, Jane Robinson, Rebecca Sattin and Vicky Roberts.

• Kate Slatter and Megan Still - bronze medal world championships 1994, world champions 1995, Olympic champions 1996. Kate Slatter teamed with AIS scholarship holder Rachael Taylor to win bronze medal at 1999 world championships and silver medal 2000 Olympic Games
• Mike McKay - member of the Olympic champion crew, the 'Oarsome Foursome', 1992 and 1996 Olympic champions; world champion 1986, 1990, 1991; Commonwealth champion 1986 , silver medal Olympic Games 2000
• James Tomkins - member of the Olympic champion crew, the 'Oarsome Foursome', 1992 and 1996 Olympic champions; world champion 1986, 1990, 1991; Commonwealth champion 1986, bronze medal 2000 Olympic Games;
• Andrew Cooper - member of the Olympic champion crew, the 'Oarsome Foursome', 1992 and 1996, world champion 1986, 1991; Commonwealth champion 1986
• Drew Ginn - member of the Olympic champion crew, the 'Oarsome Foursome', 1996 Olympic champions
• Nick Green - gold medal, 'Oarsome Foursome', Olympic Games, 1996
• James Galloway and Malcolm Batten - world champions 1986, Commonwealth champions 1986
• Bruce Hick - world champion 1991, 1992, 1993; world championship bronze medallist 1990, Olympic bronze medal 1996, silver medal 1999 world championship
• Adair Ferguson - world champion 1985; Commonwealth champion 1986
• Robyn Grey-Gardiner, Marilyn Kidd, Deborah Bassett - Commonwealth champions 1986
• Courtney Johnstone, Ballanda Sack, Anna McFarlane, Samantha Stewart - world junior champions 1989
• Andrew Stunnel, Bruce Hick, Gary Lynagh, James Seppelt - silver medal, world championships 1994
• Anna Ozolins and Carmen Klomp - bronze medal, world championships 1994
• Alison Davies, Kate Slatter, Megan Still, Victoria Toogood - bronze medal, world championships 1994
• Robert Scott and David Weightman - silver medal, Olympic Games 1996
• Brett Hayman, Alastair Isherwood, Jon Berney - world champions 1997
• David Porzig - bronze medal, world championship 1997
• Nick McDonald-Crowley - silver medal, world championship 1997
• Kath Burke, Sarah Chibnall, Jodi Winter, Kristina Larsen - gold medal, Nations Cup 1997
• Brett Hayman -cox gold medal 1997 and 1998 world championships, silver medal 2000 Olympic Games
• Jane Robinson - bronze medal, world championships, 1998
• Daniel Burke, Alastair Gordon, Robert Jahrling, Nick Porzig, Jaime Fernandez, Chris Ryan, Stuart Welch - silver medal 2000 Olympic Games

Some of the year-to-year highlights include:

• Lucerne World Championships
• World Champions in the Women's Eight, the first time an Australian crew has won the women's eight.  The crew was Jodi Winter (former AIS), Jo Lutz (AIS), Julia Wilson, Jane Robinson (AIS), Emily Martin (former AIS), Rebecca Sattin (AIS), Vicky Roberts (former AIS), Kristina Larsen (former AIS), and cox Carly Bilson.  The coach was Lyall McCarthy of the AIS. 
• World Champions in the Women's Four, Jo Lutz (AIS), Julia Wilson, Jane Robinson (AIS), Vicky Roberts (former AIS),coach Lyall McCarthy
• the Women's Four won AIS Team of the Year

2000

• At the Sydney Olympics, 21 current and 21 former AIS scholarship holders were selected in the Australian team.
• Kate Slatter and Rachael Taylor won silver medal in the women's pairs.
• Men's eight - Daniel Burke, Jaime Fernandez, Alastair Gordon, Brett Hayman (cox),Robert Jahrling, Michael McKay, Nick Porzig, Chris Ryan, Stuart Welch - won silver medal
• Women's eight - Alison Davies, Katie Foulkes (cox), Rachel Kininmonth, Kristina Larsen, Emily Martin, Victoria Roberts, Jane Robinson, Bronwyn Thompson, Jodi Winter - were 5th.

1999

• AIS scholarships holders Kate Slatter and Rachael Taylor won the women's pair bronze medal at 1999 world championships.
• AIS scholarship holder Bruce Hick teamed with Haimish Karrasch to win the men's lightweight double scull silver medal at the 1999 world championships.

1998

• AIS scullers Jane Robinson, Bronwyn Roye, Marina Hatzakis and Sally Newmarch won the quad scull bronze medal at the world championships. The women's eight, all AIS scholarship holders was fourth in the final.
• AIS scholarship coxswain Brett Hayman coxed the men's four (the 'Oarsome Foursome' crew) and the men's pair (Nick Green and James Tomkins) to gold medals at the world championships
• AIS scholarship holders Martin Inglis and Shaun Coulton won gold medals in the men's quad scull at the U23 Nations Cup
• AIS scholarship holder Kisahn Lamshed also won gold, in the women's lightweight double scull, at the U23 Nations Cup

1997

• AIS rowers won the senior A & senior B men's and women's pairs and fours at the national championships
• 19 of 30 scholarship holders were selected in the national team
• Nick McDonald-Crowley won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the world championships
• AIS scholarship holders Kath Burke, Sarah Chibnall, Jodi Winter, and Kristina Larsen won the women's coxless fours gold medal at the U23 Nations Cup
• The Australian lightweight eight with cox, which included three AIS rowers, won the world championship. The crew was undefeated internationally, also winning the Paris World Cup, and the Amsterdam and Luzern international regattas
• At the world championships, the men's eight won the bronze medal

1996

• AIS rowers won all sweep events at the national championships, and 22 of the 26 scholarship holders were selected in the Australian Olympic rowing team for Atlanta
• Kate Slatter and Megan Still won the coxless pairs at the Atlanta Olympic Games
• The 'Oarsome Foursome' - Mike McKay, James Tomkins, Nick Green and Drew Ginn - won the coxless fours gold medal; all members of the crew were on AIS scholarship

1995

• AIS rowers Kate Slatter and Megan Still won the women's coxless pair at the world championships
• All scholarship holders were selected in national teams

1994

• The women's coxless pair (Megan Still and Kate Slatter) and the women's coxless four both won bronze medals at the 1994 World Rowing Championships
• 29 of 31 scholarship holders were selected in the national team

1993

• AIS rowers Ralph Cruickshank and Robert Plater won a bronze medal in the men's double sculls at the World Junior Rowing Championships
• 25 of 30 scholarship holders were selected in Australian teams

1992

• 22 of 31 scholarship holders were selected in Australian national teams
• Three former AIS rowers, Andrew Cooper, Mike McKay and James Tomkins, were members of the 'Oarsome Foursome' which won the men's coxless fours at the Barcelona Olympic Games
• AIS oarsmen David Cameron and Duncan Ashby won the men's pair silver medal at the World Junior Rowing Championships

1991

• AIS scholarship holders won 12 titles at the national championships and 29 AIS athletes were chosen as Australian representatives

1990

• 24 AIS rowers, 13 women and 11 men, were selected for the first World Rowing Championships held in Australia, at Lake Barrington in Tasmania

1989

• AIS rowers Courtney Johnstone, Ballanda Sack, Anna McFarlane and Samantha Stewart won the women's four gold medal in the World Junior Rowing Championships in Hungary

1988

• Four AIS rowers were selected for the men's eight and one in the quad scull for the Seoul Olympic Games

1987

• Over half the scholarship holders competed in the world championships in Copenhagen

1986

• At an international U23 regatta in Spain, AIS athletes won silver medals in both the men's and women's pairs
• Nine AIS athletes were chosen to represent Australia at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and World Rowing Championships
• The Australian men's eight, which included AIS athletes, won the world championship, the Luzern international regatta and the Commonwealth Games gold medal
• The women's eight, containing seven AIS rowers, won the Commonwealth Games gold medal, and three AIS rowers also won a silver medal in the coxed fours
• In 2002, he coached the crews that won gold in the women's four, and silver in the women's eight at the World Championships.

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