Fiona Albert

Fiona Albert
Personal information
Born (1990-12-12) 12 December 1990
Sport
Sport Rowing
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
U23 World Championships
U23 2013 LinzW4-

Fiona Albert (born 12 December 1990) is an Australian rower. She competed in the women's eight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]

Club and state rowing

Raised in Brisbane, Albert was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School where she took up rowing. She attended the University of Queensland, studying Arts/Law. She later relocated to Victoria and rowed from the Mercantile Rowing Club.

Albert was first selected to represent Queenland in the women's youth eight in 2009 contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She rowed again in the Queensland youth eight in 2010.[2] From 2011 to 2016 she rowed in Queensland's senior women's eights who contested the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[3] Those Queensland eights took the silver medal in five of those six years. [4]

International representative rowing

Albert was first selected for Australian representation in a coxless four contesting the 2012 U23 World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania. That four rowed to a silver medal.[5]

Albert was vying for selection in Australian sculling boats when she first came into the senior representative squad. She rowed in a double scull at the 2014 World Rowing Cup I in Sydney with Rhiannon Hughes and as a single sculler at the WRC III that year in Lucerne. In 2015 she again contested single sculls at both World Rowing Cups in Europe. The formidable Kim Crow was Australia's eminent sculler at that time and the crewed boats were made up by the Olympia Aldersey, Sally Kehoe, Jessica Hall, Kerry Hore, Madeleine Edmunds and Jennifer Cleary who all kept Albert out of World Championship selection.[5]

Albert was in the bow seat of the Australian women's eight who initially missed qualification for the 2016 Rio Olympics but received a late call up following the Russian drug scandal. WADA had discovered Russian state sponsored drug testing violations and the IOC acted to protect clean athletes and set strict entry guidelines for Russian athletes resulting in most of their rowers and nearly all of their crews being withdrawn from the Olympic regatta. The crew had dispersed two months earlier after their failure to qualify but reconvened, travelled at the last minute to Rio and borrowed a shell. They finished last in their heat, last in the repechage and were eliminated.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Fiona Albert". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ↑ 2009 Austn C'ships
  3. ↑ 2015 Austn C'ships
  4. ↑ 2018 Queen's Cup results
  5. 1 2 Albert at World Rowing
  6. ↑ 2016 Olympics at Guerin Foster
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