Jack Hargreaves (rower)  Jack Hargreaves (born 24 July 1993) is an Australian World Champion rower. He is a current world champion having won gold in the coxless four at the 2017 World Rowing Championships and then successfully defended that title at 2018 Plovdiv. Raised in Nyngan in country New South Wales, Hargreaves was educated at St Joseph's College Hunters Hill where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club. Hargreaves' first state representation for New South Wales came in 2013 when he was selected in the New South Wales youth eight to contest the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. From 2014 to 2019 Hargreaves was selected in the New South Wales men's senior eight to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He crewed those King's Cup victories in 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019. He has contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. In SUBC colours he placed second in the open men's single scull title in 2018. At the New South Wales State Championships in February 2020 he won the men's elite single sculls title and together with Jack O'Brien, won the men's elite pair. Hargreaves made his Australian representative debut in the men's eight which raced at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney in 2013. Later than year he competed in the eight at the 2013 U23 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The U23 eight finished in overall tenth place. In 2014 he rowed in a coxless pair at the WRC III in Lucerne before contesting the U23 World Rowing Championships in Varese in the pair with Nicholas Wheatley and taking a silver medal. He continued to partner with Wheatley into 2015 and they raced at two World Rowing Cups in Europe before competing at the 2015 U23 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette and finishing in overall sixth place. In 2017 Hargreaves was selected into the Australian men's coxless four with Spencer Turrin and Alexander Hill who'd been medallists in the four at World Championships in 2014 & 2015 respectively and with newcomer Joshua Hicks. They took gold at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and then raced in the Australian men's senior eight at the WRC III in Lucerne to a silver medal. At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota Florida rowing as a four, they won their heat and semi-final.