Harriet Hudson
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Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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| Born | 23 January 1998 (age 27) Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2016–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sydney Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ellen Randell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Queen's Cup 2017-19,22 Austn Champion 4X 2017 Austn Champion 4X 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harriet Hudson (born 23 January 1998) is an Australian national representative rower. She is a three-time national senior champion, twice won silver medals at World U23 Championships and is an Olympian. She competed in the Australian women's quad scull at Tokyo 2021 winning a bronze medal.[1][2]
Raised in Warwick, Queensland Hudson was schooled at Somerville House in Brisbane where she took up rowing. Her senior rowing has been from the Sydney Rowing Club.[3]
Having relocated to Sydney for her tertiary studies Hudson became eligible to represent New South Wales at the Interstate Regatta and she rowed in the NSW senior women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup in 2017,[4] 2018[5] 2019, 2022 and 2023.[6] Only the 2019 crew was victorious.[7] In 2022 she was also selected as NSW's single sculling entrant and raced to victory in the Nell Slatter Trophy at the 2022 Interstate Regatta.[8]
In Sydney Rowing Club colours Hudson contested and won all three U19 Australian national titles in the sculling boat classes at the 2016 Australian Rowing Championships.[9] In 2017 she placed 2nd in the double sculls and winning her first senior national title in a composite quad scull with her national training partners.[10] In 2018 she again placed in both the double and the quad at the Australian championships.[11] In 2019 she contested all three national sculling titles in the U23 age division in her campaign for selection for the U23 World Championships.[12] She won the double-scull national title with Giorgia Patten.
In 2021 Hudson won her second Australian senior national title in a composite quad with her Australian representative teammates Meredith, Cronin and Thompson.[13] At the Australian Rowing Championships in 2022 she won another national title – the women's eight – in a composite Australian selection crew.
