31 March 2024(2024-03-31) (aged 84)[1] Sydney, Australia
Sport
Sport
Rowing
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
1960 Rome
National finals
ULVA Trophy 1951–1958 King's Cup 1955–57, 1959
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing Australia
British Empire (and Commonwealth) Games
1954 Vancouver
M4+
1958 Cardiff
M8+
1958 Cardiff
M4+
Lionel Philip Robberds, AM, King's Counsel (2 April 1939 – 31 March 2024) was an Australian representative rowing coxswain, national representative and world champion squash player and a barrister. In rowing he was seven times a national champion who won a gold medal in a coxed four at the 1954 Commonwealth Games; silver and bronze medals at the 1958 Commonwealth Games; and competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics in the men's coxed four.[2] In squash he was a member of Australia's 1973 World Champion amateur four man team. As a lawyer his career at the New South Wales bar extended over fifty years. He was appointed a QC in 1982 and later a senior member of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
^"Lionel Philip Lionel Philip". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment. 6 April 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lionel Robberds Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
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significant service to the Philippine community of the Northern Territory. LionelRobberds QC For significant service to the law, to rowing, and to the community...
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