David Bartholot
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Biography
David Bartholot (born 26 September 1995) is an Australian representative rower. He is an Australian national champion and represented in the double-scull at the 2019 World Championships.
Club and state rowing
Bartholot was raised in Foster on the New South Wales north coast. He flirted with the idea of surf boat rowing at the Crowdy Head Surf Club but didn't take up stillwater rowing until he commenced studies at Sydney University in 2015. He was a resident at St Andrew's College and his senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club.
In 2018 in SUBC colours Bartholot contested the open men's single and double scull titles at the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2019 he contested the open men's single scull and won the open's men's quad scull national championship title in an SUBC/ANU composite crew.
International representative rowing
Bartholot made his Australian representative debut in 2019.He was selected to race a double scull with Luke Letcher at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan where they placed nineteenth. At the WRC III in Rotterdam he rowed a single scull and placed twelfth. Bartholot and Caleb Antill were selected to race Australia's double scull at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The double were looking for a top eleven finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.They were second in their heat, third in their quarter-final and fourth in their semi-final.They finished sixth in the B-final for an overall twelfth world place and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.