Dave Anderson

David Rollo Anderson, known as Dave, was an Australian rower, born on 8 April 1932 and died on 5 November 2025 at the age of 93. He did his senior rowing at the Leichhardt Rowing Club in Sydney and was chosen for the New South Wales eight in eight straight seasons from 1950 to 1957. He won the bronze medal in the Australian eight at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and stroked the Australian coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Games, where it went out in the semi-final. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won bronze in the coxless pair and gold in the coxed four. His daughter Wendy Laidlaw played for the Australian women's basketball team at the 1984 Olympics.