Georgina Rowe

Georgina Rowe
Personal information
Born 13 November 1992
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club UTS Haberfield Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
National finals Queen's Cup 2018
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
2018 Plovdiv Women's eight

Georgina Rowe (born 13 November 1992 in New South Wales) is an Australian national representative rower, a medallist at the 2018 World Rowing Championships. She was a 2016 indoor rowing Australian champion and a winner of the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta.

Surfboat and indoor rowing

Rowe was raised on Sydney's northern beaches and rowed surfboats at Collaroy SLSC [1]

She was encouraged by surfboat colleagues to the attend the 2016 Australian National Indoor Rowing Championship, which she won. [2] She then met coaching staff from Rowing Australia and the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club who encouraged her to compete at the 2017 World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston. There she placed second to Olena Buryak in the CRASH-B Sprints – women's open 2000m category.[3]

In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight who won the open women's coxed eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships [4].

Club and state stillwater rowing

Rowe joined the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club in Sydney. She raced for New South Wales in the state representative eight who contested and placed second in the 2018 Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[5]

International representative rowing

Rowe made her Australian representative debut straight into the senior squad and into the engine room – the five seat – of the women's eight when they started their 2018 international campaign with a bronze medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria.[6] In their second competitive outing of the 2018 international season in an Australian selection eight and racing as the Georgina Hope Rinehart National Training Centre, after Rowing Australia patron, Gina Rinehart, Rowe won the 2018 Remenham Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.[7] Then at the WRC III in Lucerne they finished fifth. At the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv the Australian women's eight with Rowe seated at four, won their heat and placed third in the final winning the bronze medal. [6]

References

  1. ↑ 2016 SLSA publication
  2. ↑ 2016 SLSA publication
  3. ↑ "CRASH-B Sprints Results 2017" (PDF). 12 February 2017. p. 33. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Austn C'ships 2018
  5. ↑ 2018 Interstate Regatta results
  6. 1 2 Rowe at World Rowing
  7. ↑ 2018 Australian Henley victories
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