| Redmond Matthews | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Birth Date: | 31 January 1992 |
| Years Active: | 2013– |
| Country: | Australia |
| Sport: | Rowing |
| Event: | Lightweight sculler |
| Club: | Mercantile Rowing Club |
Redmond Matthews (born 31 January 1992) is an Australian representative lightweight rower. He is a three-time Australian national champion, and has represented twice at World Championships.
His Australian senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.[1] He won the lightweight sculling title at the 2012 national Australian University Championships racing for Monash University.[2] In 2013 he raced for Australia at the World University Games - the 2013 Summer Universiade held in Kazan, Russia. He won his semi-final.
Matthews began competing in Mercantile colours in the open division at the Australian national championships in 2012. He raced for national championships in the LW8+ in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019; the LWM1X in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2022; the LW2X in 2017; the LW4X in 2014; the LM4- in 2019; and the open-weight single in 2021. He won those national titles in the lightweight coxless four in 2019 and in the lightweight single scull in 2022.[3] [4]
Matthews first made state selection for Victoria in the 2013 lightweight men's four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[5] He was further selected in Victorian Penrith Cup fours in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019.[6] In that 2019 crew he won the Australian title.[7] In 2021 and 2022 he raced as Victoria's representative single sculler in the President's Cup, taking the bronze medal in that event in 2022.[8]
Matthews made his Australian representative debut in a lightweight double scull at the 2013 World Rowing Cup I in Sydney. He next raced for Australia in a lightweight quad at the 2017 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. His first appearance at a World Championship was in 2017 in the Australian lightweight quad at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida. That crew finished in overall twelfth place.[9]
In March 2022 Matthews was selected for the lightweight double scull within a broader Australian training team to prepare for the 2022 international season and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[10] He competed in the LM2X at both the World Rowing Cup II on Poznan and at WRC III in Lucerne.[11] At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, he rowed Australia's representative lightweight double scull with Oscar McGuinness. They made the C final in which they finished fifth, for an overall seventeenth place at the regatta.[9]