Rowena Meredith
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Basingstoke, England
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| Full name | Rowena Alice H. Meredith | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 1995 (age 29) Basingstoke, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2008–current | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Mosman Rowing Club Sydney University Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Queen's Cup 2016–22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rowena Alice H. Meredith (born 27 April 1995) is an Australian representative rower. She is an Olympic medallist, a multiple Australian national champion at both U23 and senior levels, was twice a medallist at underage world championships and has won four medals at World Rowing Cups. She competed in the Australian women's quad scull at Tokyo 2021 winning a bronze medal.[1][2]
Born in Basingstoke England,[3] Meredith was raised in Sydney, Australia and her senior club rowing was from the Mosman Rowing Club till 2016 and then Sydney University Boat Club from 2017.[4]
Meredith's first state selection for New South Wales was in 2014 in women's youth eight contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[5] She rowed again in the New South Wales youth eight in 2015. For seven straight years from 2016 to 2023[6] she was selected in the New South Wales senior women's eight competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[7] Only the 2019 New South Wales eight was victorious.[8]
Meredith raced in Mosman colours in a NSW composite eight contesting the women's eight event at the 2015 Australian Rowing Championships.[9] That year she also contested the U23 women's quad scull title and placed second.[9] At the 2016 Australian Rowing Championships she raced in Mosman colours for the U23 single, double and quad sculls titles.[10] By 2017 Meredith was racing for SUBC and she won all three national U23 sculling titles – the single, double and quad.[11]
At the 2018 Australian Championships Meredith contested the single and double sculls, and competed in a Sydney University eight for the women's eight title.[12] In 2019 she placed second to Genevieve Horton in the Australian women's single scull championship and won the women's eight title in a composite selection crew.[13] She won the national double scull title at the 2022 Australian Rowing Championships (racing with Harriet Hudson)[14] and in 2023 rowing with Tara Rigney.[15]
