Stuart MacKenzie is an Australian competition rower and Olympic medalist, who also competed for Great Britain at the 1962 World Championships. He received a silver medal in single sculls at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He was reputed to have miscounted the distance, due to not realising the spacing of the buoys changed from 100m to 50m in the last 250m of the race, and so stopped temporarily while still 100 metres from the finish. Stuart visited South Africa in 1958, and rowed on the Vaal River at Billabong, near Vereeniging. He took part in the SA Championships and won the Double Sculls event with his trainee, John Eden. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won a gold medal in single sculls and also set a Commonwealth Games record, and he received a silver medal in double sculls with Mervyn Wood. He won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta six times, consecutively, from 1957 to 1962, and won the Silver Goblets partnering Chris Davidge in 1963, and the Double Sculls, also with Davidge, in 1959. He was also noted for his gamesmanship, including going out for practice sessions wearing a bowler hat 

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