Benjamin Philip Dodwell (born 17 April 1972 in Melbourne) is an Australian former rower - a nine-time national champion, a triple Olympian, Olympic medal winner and representative at World Rowing Championships.

[1] Dodwell's first state representation came in 1990 when he was selected in the Victorian youth eight who contested and won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta in the Australian Rowing Championships.

Dodwell's Australian representative debut was at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 at aged twenty in his first year of senior club and state rowing.

[4] In 1994 Dodwell was selected to stroke the men's coxless four who competed at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis for an eleventh place finish.

Australia's prominent crew of the early nineties, the Oarsome Foursome were in their first year of a post Olympics comeback in 1998 and had moved into coxed boats.

Together with Bo Hanson and the twins Geoff and James Stewart, Dodwell took seats in the Australian men's coxless four with their eyes on a 2000 Olympics campaign.