Andréanne Morin
Canadian rower (born 1981)
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Andréanne Morin (born August 9, 1981) is a Canadian rower and Olympian.
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| Born | August 9, 1981 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Montreal Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Morin was an integral part of Canada's women's eights rowing team. She won medals at three world championships, a bronze medal at the 2003 World Rowing Championships[1] and silver at the 2010 World Rowing Championships[1] and 2011 World Rowing Championships.[1] She was the NCAA champion in rowing 2006.[1]
Morin was a three time Olympian finishing seventh in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in fourth place at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.[2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics she was part the Canadian women's eight that won the silver medal.[3]
Other work
Morin was a member of the Athlete Committee at the World Anti Doping Agency.[4]
Education
She attended The Study, graduating in grade 11 in 1998, and later attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 2000, followed by a bachelor's degree in political science at Princeton University in 2006.[2][5] She also later studied law at Université de Montréal.[6]
Honours
In 2012 Morin was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[7]
In 2019, an eponymous shell in her name, the A. Morin 2000, was christened and added to the Phillips Exeter Academy boathouse.