Caitlin Cronin
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| Born | 22 March 1995 (age 30) Brisbane | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2014–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Uni Queensland Boat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Queen's Cup 2016–18,22 Austn Champion 4X 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Caitlin Cronin (born 22 March 1995) is an Australian national representative rower. She is a national champion, won a silver medal at 2017 World U23 Championships and is an Olympian. She stroked the Australian women's quad scull at Tokyo 2021 to a bronze medal.[1][2]
Raised in Queensland, Cronin's Australian club rowing has been from the Brisbane & GPS Rowing Club in Brisbane and the University of Queensland Boat Club.[3]
Cronin made her first state representative appearance for Queensland in the 2014 youth eight which contested and won The Bicentennial Cup at that year's Interstate Regatta.[4] In 2015 she again represented in the Queensland women's youth eight.[5] She first made the Queensland women's senior eight in 2016 and rowed in those crews contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regattas in 2016,[6] 2017,[7] 2018 and 2022.[8] She stroked the 2018 Queensland crew. In 2021 she won the silver medal as the Queensland representative to race for the Nell Slatter Trophy - the women's single scull event at the Interstate Regatta.[9] In 2023 she again placed second as the Victorian entrant contesting the interstate single scull title.[10]
Cronin contested U23 Australian national titles in all three sculling boat classes at the 2016 and 2017 Australian Rowing Championships. She won the U23 national championship in the quad in 2016[11] and in a double scull in 2017.[12] She raced in the open class in UQBC colours from 2018 placing 2nd in the double-scull in both 2018[13] and 2021. In 2021 she won her first Australian senior national title in a composite quad with her Australian representative teammates Meredith, Hudson and Thompson.[14]
