Career
He coached at State and national representative level taking Australian Olympic crews to success in the 1960s. Cayzer was schooled at Street Joseph"s College, Hunters Hill and his senior rowing was done with the Sydney Rowing Club with whom Cayzer would have a lifelong association. During the 1970s in Melbourne he would be a senior clubman at the Mercantile club
He stroked the New South Wales representative VIII in the King"s Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships on five occasions from 1948 to 1954 winning the national championship in 1949, 1950 and 1951.
An all New South Wales crew was selected to represent Australia at the 1952 Henley Royal Regatta and Helsinki Olympics. At Henley in the final for the Grand Challenge Cup the crew, again stroked by Cayzer, placed second to Leander by 0.8 of a second.
The same crew then competed in the Olympic eights in Helsinki, winning a bronze medal behind United States of America and Russia. After retiring from rowing Cayzer took up coaching.
He was the Senior Coach at the Sydney Rowing Club for most for the sixties while also coaching numerous New South Wales representative Kings Cup crews.
He coached the coxed four of Alf Duval, Alan Grover, Mick Allan, John Campbell and Gary Herford selected to compete at Tokyo 1964. He drove Sydney Rowing Club"s association with Olympic representative crews recruiting a number of national senior rowers to join Duval, Grover and Joe Fazio at Sydney to create the men"s eight for the 1968 Summer Olympics. He coached the crew both in Australia and in Mexico.
In the 1970s Cayzer relocated to Melbourne for business and became actively involved at the Mercantile club, rowing in social crews and becoming one of the club"s most senior coaches.
He returned to Sydney in the 1980s and continued to coach Club, state and national crews till the early 2000s.
