John Mullard

Jock Mullard attended Radley College and rowed for them at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1963. He then went to Keble College Oxford and was a rowing Blue in 1966 and 1967, and was president of the Oxford University Boat Club in the second of those years.

Originally a reserve for the Great Britain team at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Mullard got called up into the eights in place of Malcolm Malpass in the B Final after Malpass had collapsed during the repêchage heat. Mullard took part in the coxless pairs with Peter Saltmarsh at the 1969 European Championships at Klagenfurt, Austria.

A schoolteacher by profession, Mullard became master in charge of rowing at his old school, Radley, and in 2015 an indoor rowing facility designed to simulate outdoor rowing was opened at Radley and named “The Jock Mullard Rowing Tank”. A former Daily Express rowing correspondent, Mullard was appointed one of Henley’s new stewards in 1984.