Jacinta Edmunds

Jacinta Edmunds
Personal information
Born 5 October 1994
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club Commercial Rowing Club
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
2018 Plovdiv Women's eight

Jacinta Edmunds (born 5 October 1994) is an Australian national representative rower from Queensland. She is twice an Australian champion and was a medallist at the 2018 World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing

Raised in Brisbane, Edmunds' is the daughter of 1984 Olympic bronze medal winning rower Ian Edmunds and the sister of Olympian rower Madeleine Edmunds. Jacinta was educated at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School at Ascot and her senior rowing has been from the Commercial Rowing Club in Brisbane.[1]

Her state representative debut for Queensland came in the 2012 youth eight which contested the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[2] Senior state honours came for Edmunds in 2018 when she rowed behind her sister Maddie in Queensland's women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the 2018 Interstate Regatta.[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] and in a composite Australian selection four she won the 2018 open women's coxless four national title.[5]

International representative rowing

Edmunds made her Australian representative debut in a junior quad scull at the 2012 Junior World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv. That quad placed tenth overall. [6]

From 2014 to 2016 she represented Australia at U23 World Rowing Championships. [6] She was in the Australian U23 eight at Varese 2014 and at Rotterdam 2016. [6] At the 2015 U23 World Championships in Plovdiv she rowed in the Australian coxless four. All of those crews made the A finals but finished outside the medals.[6]

Edmunds made the Australian senior squad and into the seven seat of the senior 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] She was not in the crew for the WRC III nor for their victory at Henley but she was back in the eight for 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv where the Australian women's eight with Edmunds in the seven seat, won their heat and placed third in the final winning the bronze medal.[6]

References

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