Nicholas Lavery

Fast Facts

Sport: Rowing
Event: Men’s Eight 
Olympic History: Olympic Debutant 
Coach: Rhett Ayliffe
Highlights: Representing Australia at the 2019 U23 World Championships 
Year Born: 1998
Born: Carlton, VIC  
Junior Club: Wesley College (Melbourne, VIC)

About Nicholas

Melbourne native NIcholas Lavery began training at Rowing Australia’s Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre in Canberra in 2020, with Olympic ambitions the reasoning for his move to the nation’s capital. 

Lavery first represented Australia at the 2019 U23 World Championships in the Men’s Four, where alongside Marcus Britt, William O’Shannessey and younger brother Rohan, Lavery finished ninth overall. Competing on this stage offered Lavery an opportunity to expand his experiences, whilst offering a greater scope of exposure to the best young rowers on the global stage. 

Lavery’s understanding of the world rowing stage, fused with continual improvements forged at the National Training Centre put him in good stead as a member of the Australian Men's Eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where he made his Olympic debut. 

In Tokyo, the crew came up against rowing powerhouses in their Heat, including World Champions Germany as well as the USA and Romania. The fast race was dominated early by the American and German crews with Australia finishing fourth behind Romania to proceed to the repechage.

The crew was able to advance to the A-Final after they finished the repechage in fourth position, this time ahead of the Romanians, and they once again faced a stacked field in the race for medals. Racing out of lane six against the USA, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain, the Australian crew was behind at the start and unable to make up the time or speed throughout the race they finished sixth overall.