Georgina Rowe

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]

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]

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]

• Georgina Rowe at FISA WorldRowing.com