Mike McKay
- January 6, 2024
- Rower
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Mike McKay Biography
| Name | Mike McKay |
| Birthday | Sep 30 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | Melbourne |
| Home Town | Melbourne |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Mike McKay is one of the most popular and richest Rower who was born on September 30, 1964 in Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Michael Scott McKay, OAM (born 30 September 1964), known as Mike McKay, is an Australian rower, a four-time world champion, a four-time Olympic medallist and Commonwealth Games gold medallist. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of Australia’s prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.
In 1990, McKay, with Nick Green, Samuel Patten, James Tomkins were selected race as Australia’s coxless four. Their success was immediate. They won the 1990 and 1991 World Rowing Championships. And with Andrew Cooper replacing Samuel Patten, they followed up with a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The crew’s success gained them the nickname Oarsome Foursome.
The boat repeated its Gold medal performance at the 1996 Summer Olympics, this time with Drew Ginn replacing Andrew Cooper.
At the 1998 World Rowing Championships, McKay, with the other members of the Oarsome Foursome, teamed to win the coxless four. At those same championships McKay with Drew Ginn placed second in the coxless pair. In 1999 the foursome tried out but lost the 1999 Australian selection trials as a coxless four. Nick Green retired, Tomkins and Ginn decided to switch to the coxless pairs, and McKay tried out for the Australian eight which ended up finishing seventh at the World Championships.
McKay was selected in Victorian state representative King’s Cup crews contesting the men’s Interstate Eight-Oared Championship at the Australian Rowing Championships on eighteen occasions from 1986 to 2004. McKay was in winning Victorian King’s Cup crews on fifteen occasions.
Mike McKay Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Rower |
| House | Living in own house. |
Mike McKay is one of the richest Rower from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike McKay 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
McKay’s first national representative selection was to the 1985 Match des Seniors in Banyoles Spain – the equivalent at the time of today’s World Rowing U23 Championships. McKay rowed in the Australian men’s eight to a silver medal. That same crew represented Australia in the men’s eight selected for the 1985 Trans-Tasman U/23 regatta held on Lake Ruataniwha New Zealand.
His first senior national call up was to the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England where he rowed the four seat in the Australian men’s eight to victory. It was Australia’s first and only World Championship title in the men’s VIII. That same year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, in that same crew McKay won gold in the Australian men’s VIII. McKay also rowed in a coxed four to a bronze medal at those same games.
In 1993, McKay and the other members of his 1992 Olympic boat were awarded the Order of Australia.
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Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Rower. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Mike McKay celebrates birthday on September 30 of every year.