Anna Ozolins
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| Born | 12 May 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Port Adelaide Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Ozolins (born 12 May 1974 in Broken Hill, New South Wales) is an Australian former rower. She is a four-time national champion and an Australian representative oarswoman who won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships. She was the stroke of the Australian women's heavyweight eight from 1994 to 1995 and from 1998 to 1999.
Ozolins' junior rowing was from the Port Adelaide Rowing Club and later the Adelaide Rowing Club.
She first contested the Australian Rowing Championships in 1991 when she placed second in the U19 national single scull title behind her Port Adelaide teammate Carmen Klomp-Wearne with whom she would go on to row at state and national representative levels.[1]
She made her first state representative appearance for South Australia, one month after her seventeenth birthday in the 1991 women's four which contested the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[2] In 1992 she rowed in the South Australian youth four.[3]
In 1994 she was back in the South Australian senior women's four which that year won the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta[4] and was again in the SA four in 1995. In 1997 Ozolins took a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport and that year stroked the Australian Capital Territory women's four at the Interstate Regatta.[5]
In 1999 the women's heavyweight event at the Interstate Regatta switched into coxed eights.[6] Ozolins stroked the 2001 South Australian eight to a fifth placing.[7]