Fiona Ewing

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Fiona Ewing
Personal information
Born23 April 1994 (1994-04-23) (age 27)
Years active2016-current
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSydney University Boat Club

Fiona Ewing (born 23 April 1994) is an Australian representative rower. She won three Australian national championship titles in 2019 and a bronze medal at a 2019 World Rowing Cup.

Club and state rowing[]

Ewing grew up in north of Sydney at Terrigal, New South Wales and her senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club.[1]

Ewing's first state selection for New South Wales was in 2016 in the women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[2] She rowed again in the New South Wales senior women's eight in 2017, 2018 and 2019 [3] and rowed to a Queen's Cup victory in 2019.[4]

Ewing raced in SUBC colours in NSW composite eights contesting the open women's coxed eight event at the 2017 and the 2018 Australian Rowing Championships.[5] In 2017 she also contested the open women's single and double sculls. In 2018 she contested the open single sculls title and placed eighth.[6]

In 2019 she placed fourth in the Australian open women's single scull championship, won the open women's double scull with Cara Grzeskowiak and won the open's women's coxed eight title in a composite selection crew.[7]

International representative rowing[]

Ewing made her Australian representative debut at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam where she rowed in the three seat of the Australian women's U23 eight to a fifth placing.[8]

In 2019 Ewing was selected in the Australian senior women's quad scull with Katrina Bateman, Rowena Meredith and Cara Grzeskowiak. They rowed to a fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and then to a bronze medal win at WRC III in Rotterdam.[8] In that same crew Ewing was selected to race Australia's quad scull at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.[9] The quad were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.[10] They placed fourth in the B-final for an overall tenth-place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Ewing at Rowing Australia
  2. ^ 2016 Austn Cships
  3. ^ 2018 Interstate Regatta
  4. ^ "2019 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  5. ^ 2017 Austn C'ships
  6. ^ 2018 Austn C'ships
  7. ^ "2019 Austn Championships". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  8. ^ a b c Ewing at World Rowing
  9. ^ 2019 WRC entry list
  10. ^ 2019 World C'ship selections

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