Georgina Rowe

Georgina Rowe (born 13 November 1992 in New South Wales) is an Australian national representative rower, a medallist at the 2018 and 2019 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.

Georgina Rowe

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	13 November 1992
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Eight
Club	UTS Haberfield Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
National finals	Queen's Cup 2018
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Australia World Championships 2019 Ottensheim Eight 2018 Plovdiv Eight

Surfboat and indoor rowing

Rowe was raised on Sydney's northern beaches, attending Davidson High School in Frenchs Forest, and rowed surfboats at Collaroy SLSC [1][2]

She was encouraged by surfboat colleagues to the attend the 2016 Australian National Indoor Rowing Championship, which she won. [3] 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.[4]

In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight who won the open women's coxed eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships.[5]

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.[6] In 2019 she was again in the New South Wales Women's eight when they broke the 14 year Victorian stronghold and took a Queen's Cup victory.[7]

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.[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, Rowe won the 2018 Remenham Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.[9] 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. [8]

In 2019 Rowe was again picked in Australian women's sweep squad for the international season. She rowed in the four seat of the Australian women's eight to a gold medal win at Rowing World Cup II in Poznan and to a silver medal at WRC III in Rotterdam. [8] Rowe was selected to race in Australia's women's eight at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.[10] The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.[11] They placed second in their heat, came through the repechage and led in the final from the start and at all three 500m marks till they were overrun by New Zealand by 2.7secs. The Australian eight took the silver medal and qualified for Tokyo 2020.[8]

References

1. 2016 SLSA publication
2. "Northern Beaches local wins silver in World Rowing Championships, now heading to Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Pittwater Online News. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
3. 2016 SLSA publication
4. "CRASH-B Sprints Results 2017" (PDF). 12 February 2017. p. 33. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
5. Austn C'ships 2018
6. 2018 Interstate Regatta results
7. 2019 Interstate Regatta Results
8. Rowe at World Rowing
9. "2018 Australian Henley victories". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
10. 2019 WRC entry list
11. 2019 World C'ship selections

External links

• Georgina Rowe at FISA WorldRowing.com