Ria Thompson
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Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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| Born | 3 November 1997 (age 27) Carlton, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2016–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's quad sculls (W4x) Women's single sculls (W1x) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Melbourne Rowing Club Mercantile Rowing Club University of Queensland Boat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Tom Westgarth | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Nell Slatter Trophy 2018,2021 Queen's Cup 2019,22 Australian Champion 4X 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ria Thompson (born 3 November 1997) is an Australian national representative rower. She is a national senior and underage champion, won a world title at the 2019 World U23 Championships and is an Olympian. She competed in the Australian women's quad scull at Tokyo 2021 and won a bronze medal.[1][2]
Raised in Melbourne Thompson attended Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School where she took up rowing. Her senior rowing has been from a number of clubs - Melbourne Rowing Club, Mercantile Rowing Club and the University of Queensland Boat Club.[3]
Thompson began contesting underage national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in Melbourne Rowing Club colours from 2016. She won the 2016 U21 Australian championship in the single scull.[4] In 2017 she rowed to second placings in U23 national championships in the double and quad sculls.[5] In 2018 in Mercantile colours she won all U23 national titles in all three sculling boat classes.[6] In 2019 now racing for UQBC she won U23 national titles in the single scull and as stroke of the quad scull. She placed second in the U23 double scull.[7]
In 2021 Thompson won her first Australian senior national title in a composite quad with her Australian representative teammates Rowena Meredith, Caitlin Cronin and Harriet Hudson.[8] She also contested the single and the placed third in the double scull in the open age category.
Thompson made her first state representative appearance at stroke in the Victorian women's youth eight which contested and won the Bicentennial Cup at the 2017 Interstate Regatta.[9] In 2018[10] and again in 2021 she was the Victorian selected single sculler to contest the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta.[11] In 2019 she rowed in the two seat in the Victorian Queen's Cup eight which placed second to NSW.[12] She rowed again in Victorian women's senior eights to Queen's Cup victories in 2022 and 2023.[13]
