Oarsome Foursome

Personal Details

Sporting Details

Olympic / Paralympic History:

Nick Green:
Olympic medals: 2 gold (1992 & 1996)
World Championship medals: 4 gold (1990, 1991, 1998 & 1998)

Mike McKay:
Olympic medals: 2 gold (1992 & 1996), 1 silver (2000) & 1 Bronze (2004)
World Championship medals: 3 gold (1990, 1991 & 1998) & 1 silver (1998)

James Tomkins:
Olympic medals: 3 gold (1992, 1996 & 2004) & 1 Bronze (2000)
World Championship medals: 7 gold (1986, 1990, 1991 1998, 1998, 1999 & 2003)
Commonwealth Games medal: 1 gold (1986) & 1 bronze (1986)

Drew Ginn:
Olympic medals: 3 gold (1996, 2004 & 2008), 1 silver (2012)
World Championship medals: 5 gold (1998, 1999, 2003, 2006 & 2007), 1 silver (1998) & 2 bronze (1997 & 2011

Career highlights as a foursome:

Olympic Gold medallists in coxless fours (1996)
World Championship gold medallists in the coxed four (1998)

Oarsome in the News

Paris 2024 Olympics | One Year to Go

July 25, 2023

Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) athletes and staff are preparing towards the Paris 2024 Olympics. VIS has a proud history of success at the Summer Games and is the home of 35 Victorian Gold medallists since its inception in 1990.

The VIS Family is about to expand

August 10, 2021

Come and join our world class team

Never write off Champions: The Oarsome Foursome story

August 7, 2020

The ‘Oarsome Foursome’ showed the world that you can never write off champions at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Through the highs and lows of Australian rowing, the ‘Oarsome Foursome’ proved that champions will always find a way to succeed.

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