Sarah Hawe

Sarah Hawe

Personal information
Born	(1987-07-23) 23 July 1987
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	Huon Rowing Club Melb University Boat Club
Achievements and titles
National finals	Queen's Cup 2014, 15, 18
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Australia World Championships 2017 Sarasota Coxless four 2018 Plovdiv Coxless four

Sarah Hawe (born 23 July 1987) is an Australian rower.^[1] She is an Australian national champion and a world champion winning the 2017 world title in a coxless four.^[2] She was a winner of the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta in the Australian women's eight.

Club and state rowing

Born in Victoria, Hawe's initial senior rowing was from the Huon Rowing Club in Tasmania. She won a scholarship to the Tasmanian Institute of Sport.^[3] In her later career Hawe rowed from the Melbourne University Boat Club.

She has contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in Huon Rowing Club colours on number of occasions and in 2017 won titles in all three sweep-oared women's boat classes. She won open women's coxless pair with Meaghan Volker, the open coxless four title in an Tasmanian composite crew and the open women's eight title.^[4] In 2018 she won the open women's coxless pair national title with Molly Goodman. ^[5]

In 2014 and 2015 Hawe was selected in the Tasmanian senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.^[6] Eligible in 2018 to race for Victoria she was selected in the Victorian senior women's eight who won that year's Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.^[7]

International representative rowing

Hawe first represented Australia in a double scull at the 2005 Junior World Rowing Championships in Brandenburg. That crew placed fifth.^[8]

Hawe was not called back into national selection until 2017 when she was chosen in Australia's coxless four with Lucy Stephan, Molly Goodman, and Katrina Werry. ^[8] They competed at the World Rowing Cups II & III and as a foursome they didn't lose a race in the international season. ^[8] At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida it was to be no different. They won their heat and started slow in the final sitting in sixth place at the 500m and fifth place at the 1000m mark. In third 500m they began to push on the Dutch and were joined by Poland & Russia all challenging for the podium. In the final sprint, Stephan called Goodman to up the rating and at 43 strokes per minute the Australian four surged into the lead to claim gold and the world championships title ahead of Poland & Russia.^[9]

With Katrina Werry changed out for Rosemary Popa the world champion four stayed together into 2018 and started their 2018 international campaign with a gold medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria.^[8] 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, Hawe won the 2018 Remenham Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.^[10] The following week back in the coxless four, Hawe won another gold at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. ^[8] By the time of 2018 World Rowing Championships Popa was out of the four with an injury and Kat Werry back in. Seated as they had been in 2017, the Australian four won their heat, were surprised by new combination USA crew in the semi and then in the final placed second to the USA and finished with world championship silver. ^[8]

References

• Sarah Hawe at FISA WorldRowing.com