Robert Waley
Robert George Krulock "Ken" Waley was an Australian coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was Australia's first selected representative coxswain.
Rowing career
Waley was educated at The King's School then The Armidale School and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where he was introduced to rowing whilst a student at St Paul's College. In 1909, he coxed the Sydney University eight, which won the men's eight event at the Australian University Championships. His senior club rowing was from the Sydney Rowing Club.In 1910 and 1911 he steered the New South Wales crews to victory in the men's eight at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta.
He was coxswain in a 1912 Australian eight which racing as Sydney Rowing Club, won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley-on-Thames, where they beat the Leander Club. As an Australasian representative crew, they then travelled to Stockholm, Sweden for the 1912 Summer Olympics, where after beating a Swedish crew in the first round, they were then knocked-out in the quarter-final by the same Leander eight they had defeated at Henley a few weeks earlier. This was the first Australian international representative rowing crew and Waley was thus Australia's first representative coxswain.