[1] He was a four-time national champion who competed in the men's double sculls event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

In 1933 Dixon made state selection in the New South Wales men's eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.

[5] He rowed in four successive King's Cup winning New South Wales eights between 1933 and 1936[6] and then contested the event on three further occasions from 1937 to 1939.

The NSW Police Rowing Club eight which dominated the Sydney club season and the New South Wales state championship[8] was selected in toto as Australia's men's eight to compete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with their attendance wholly funded by the NSW Police Federation.

The selectors picked Dixon as the reserve sweep-oarsman and asked him to row the double-scull with Turner.