Timothy's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Rowing
Event: Men’s Eights
Olympic History: Olympic Debutant
Coach: Rhett Ayliffe
Highlights: Earning a silver medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships
Year Born: 1992
Born: East Melbourne, VIC
Junior Club: Melbourne Grammar School (Melbourne, VIC)
About Timothy
Once finishing high school in his native Melbourne, Tim Masters made the 16,000 kilometre journey to Princeton University, where he began his tertiary education and further his rowing career in the highly competitive American collegiate system.
Masters stroked the Men’s Eight in his senior year to bronze at the 2015 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta - Princeton’s first medal in nine years.
Once back in Australia, Masters joined the Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre in Canberra. Under the tutelage of Ian Wright, Mark Prater and Andrew Randell, Masters gained selection to both the 2017 and 2018 World Rowing Cup 3, as well as the 2018 World Rowing Championships, taking silver in each event.
After a brief switch to the Men’s Four, where he won gold in 2019 World Rowing Cups 2 and 3, Masters was named once again in the Men's Eight as part of the 2021 Australian Rowing Team.
His Olympic debut in Tokyo took on deepened meaning for Masters who was a member of the Australian Men's Eight that failed to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Racing at Tokyo's Sea Forest Waterway, 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.
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