Ian Porter

Ian Porter is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was a four-time Australian national champion and won two bronze medals at World Rowing Championships. Club and state rowing Porter was educated at Scotch College where he took up rowing. In 1974 he stroked that school's first VIII. Porter joined Melbourne's Mercantile Rowing Club in 1975 from where he did his senior club rowing initially in maiden and junior heavyweight crews but then from 1976 as a lightweight. Porter made the 1976 Victorian men's lightweight four which contested and won the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In Mercantile colours he raced in a junior eight at the 1975 Australian Rowing Championships finishing second. In 1976 he won the national lightweight four championship title and in 1977 the national lightweight eight title. He won another national lightweight eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1978.