Tim Willoughby learned to row while at St. Peter’s School in Adelaide, where he was boat captain. He later moved onto the National Team and trained at the Australian Institute of Sport. After the 1984 Olympics, Willoughby joined the crew for the Australian defense of the America’s Cup, which was held in Perth in 1987, but his yacht Kookaburra, lost the Cup to the United States’ boat, Stars & Stripes. Willoughby settled in Perth after the America’s Cup and made his career as a banker, eventually with Goldman Sachs JB, where he became a senior advisor. He was also a popular rowing coach in Perth and was Western Australia’s representative on the Australian Olympic Committee. He died from a heart attack aboard plane while flying back from the United States after a ski vacation.
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