Rebecca Joyce
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Geelong Grammar School | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club Melbourne University Boat Club UTS Haberfield Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Susan Joyce (born 12 September 1970 in Melbourne) is an Australian former rower, a sculler in the lightweight division. She was a five-time national champion, a 1995 world champion and Olympic medal winner.
Joyce was educated at Geelong Grammar School where she took up rowing. She joined Mercantile Rowing Club in the final year of school and rowed from that club between 1988 and 1990. Joyce rowed at the Melbourne University Boat Club from 1991 to 1994. She relocated to Sydney in 1994 to be coached by Ellen Randall and rowed at the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club from 1994 to 2000.[1]
Joyce was first selected for Victorian state representation in the 1989 women's youth four, however the Interstate Regatta was not conducted that year due to a cyclone.[1] In 1990 she was an emergency reserve for the Victorian lightweight four. She finally competed at the 1991 Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships as stroke of the Victorian women's lightweight four contesting and winning the Victoria Cup. From 1995 she represented New South Wales and rowed in their lightweight fours contesting the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Those New South Wales crews were victorious in 1995 and 1996.[1]
She contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on the number of occasions. In Melbourne University colours she contested the lightweight coxless pair in 1990 and won the lightweight coxless four title in 1991.[1] In 1996 she won the national lightweight single sculls championship.[1]
