Tess Gerrand

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Tess Gerrand
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1988-02-19) 19 February 1988 (age 33)
Sandringham, Victoria
Height184 cm (72 in) (2012)
Weight83 kg (183 lb) (2012)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
ClubSydney Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
National finalsQueen's Cup 2011-12
Olympic finalsLondon 2012 W8+

Tess Gerrand (born 19 February 1988) is an Australian former national representative rower. She is a national champion, an Olympian who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, was a competitor at the 2013 World Rowing Championships and a medallist at World Rowing Cups in 2013.

Personal[]

Gerrand was born on 19 February 1988 in Sandringham, Victoria.[1] She competed at 184 centimetres (72 in) tall and weighed 83 kilograms (183 lb).[1]

She attended Cundletown Primary School before Taree High School and finished at Pymble Ladies College.[1] From 2006 to 2010, she attended Yale University, where she earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in economics.[1][2][3] From 2012, she lived in Johns River, New South Wales.[1]

Varsity, club and state rowing[]

While studying in the USA she rowed for Yale University.[2] As a member of the Yale eight, she won the NCAA Championships in 2007, 2008[1][4] and 2010.[1][5] In 2007, the Yale crew won the championship in the 2 km race with a time of 5mins 48secs.[4] While at Yale, she was an All-American from 2006 to 2010.[1] In 2008, she won the World Indoor Rowing championship in the collegiate and open divisions with a personal best time of 6mins 43.2 secs in one race.[6]

Back in Australia, Gerrand's senior rowing was from the Sydney Rowing Club. Gerrand raced in SRC colours contesting the open women's coxed eight event at the 2011 Australian Rowing Championships.[7] In 2012 she contested the open women's coxed pair and won the open women's coxless four title at the Australian Championships.[8] In 2013 she contested the open women's coxed pair title at the Australian Rowing Championships.[9]

She first made state selection for New South Wales in the 2011 women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the 2011 Interstate Regatta.[10] She made another New South Wales Queen's Cup appearance in 2012.[11]

International representative rowing[]

Gerrand had her first call up to the Australian national rowing team in 2012 when selected in the women's eight attempting to qualify for the 2012 Olympics.[1] The eight named themselves the "Motley Crew".[12] and began their campaign with an Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne. With Gerrand rowing in the five seat, the Australian women's eight set a time of 6 min 12.36 secs and qualified for the London Olympics.[13] They raced in Europe to a fourth place in World Cup II in Lucerne and fifth-place finish at World Cup III in Munich [1][13] and participated in a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport European Training Centre in Varese, Italy.[14] Ultimately the crew was disappointed with their sixth-place finish at the London 2012 Olympic regatta.

In 2013 Gerrand was back in the Australian senior women's sweep squad and that year she raced in the green & gold at all international representative regattas. At the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney she raced in the Australian women's eight to a gold medal and also won bronze in a coxless pair with Katrina Bateman.[15] Then at both the WRC II in Eton Dorney and the WRC III in Lucerne, Gerrand and Bateman rowed to seventh placings in the coxless pair.[15] At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea Gerrand and Bateman rowed in both the coxless pair (to twelfth place) and in the women's eight to a fifth-place finish.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "London 2012 - Tess Gerrand". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "OLYMPICS | Q&A with American rower Taylor Ritzel '10". Yale Daily News. 29 June 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Ivy League mobile : Ivy Leaguers Headed to the London 2012 Olympics: 50 and Counting". Ivyleaguesports.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Bulldogs Lift Connell Cup :: Yale Wins Four of Five Races". Cstv.com. 24 March 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Ivy League mobile : Three Ivy Teams Finish in Top 6 at NCAA Women's Rowing Championships". Ivyleaguesports.com. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  6. ^ "Gerrand wins world indoor rowing title". Yale Daily News. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  7. ^ 2011 Austn Championships
  8. ^ 2012 Austn C'ships
  9. ^ 2013 Austn C'ships
  10. ^ 2011 Interstate Regatta
  11. ^ 2012 Interstate Regatta
  12. ^ "Australia name 46-strong rowing squad hoping to claim "avalanche of medals" at London 2012 | Rowing". insidethegames.biz. 26 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  13. ^ a b Broadstock, Amelia (25 June 2012). "Blackwood rower books spot in Games — Local News — News — Mitcham & Hills Messenger". Mitcham-and-hills-messenger.whereilive.com.au. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  14. ^ "Proud day for Tassie rowing Sport — The Mercury — The Voice of Tasmania". The Mercury. 23 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  15. ^ a b c Gerrand at World Rowing
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