Tara Rigney

Tara Rigney (born 30 March 1999) is an Australian representative rower. She is twice an Australian national champion, who has represented at underage world championships ^[1] and is a 2021 Tokyo Olympian who competed in the Australian women's double-scull.^[2][3]

Club and state rowing[]

Rigney was schooled at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney where she took up rowing.^[4][5] Her senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club.^[6]

Rigney's state representative debut for New South Wales came in 2019 when she was selected in the state women's youth VIII which raced and won the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta.^[7]

In 2021 following a dominant performance at the New South Wales state titles,^[8] she was selected as the NSW senior women's sculling representative for the Interstate Regatta. She won that national title, the Nell Slatter trophy.^[9] At that same regatta she won an Australian Championship title in the double scull with Amanda Bateman^[10] and in a quad scull contesting the 2021 open women's quad title, she finished in second place.^[11]

International representative rowing[]

Rigney made her Australian representative debut in 2019 when she was picked for the World Rowing U23 Championships in Sarasota in a coxless pair. That crew finished in tenth place.^[12][13]

By the time of national team selections in 2021 for the delayed Tokyo Olympics, Rigney's strong performances at that year's Australian Championships saw her selected to join Amanda Bateman who had already qualified Australia's double scull boat class during the 2019 international representative season.^[14] Bateman & Rigney placed third in their heat, fifth in the semi-final and won the petite final for an overall seventh place finish at the Olympic regatta.^[15] They were coached by Ellen Randall.

References[]

External links[]

• Rigney at Rowing Australia