Julia Wilson
Australian rower
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| Born | (1978-09-23) 23 September 1978 (age 45) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1998-2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | UTS Haberfield Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Julia Wilson (born 23 September 1978 in Sydney[1]) is an Australian former rower, a two-time World Champion and a dual Olympian.
Club and state rowing
Wilson's senior rowing was from the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club in Sydney.[1]
Wilson rowed in state representative eights for New South Wales contesting the Interstate women's eight championship for the ULVA Trophy and later the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. She represented her state each year from 2000 to 2004 and rowed to victories in 2002, 2003 and 2004.[2]
She was awarded a scholarship to the AIS prior to her 2001 World Championship success.[3]
International rowing career
Wilson made her first Australian representative appearance at the 1999 World Rowing U23 Championships in Hamburg. She raced in the Australian quad scull who finished sixth.[4] The next year at the 2000 Sydney Olympics Wilson rowed in the Australian women's quad scull, finishing in seventh place.[5]
Wilson made the Australian squad for the 2001 international tour. In their first competitive outing of the 2001 season, racing as an Australian Institute of Sport selection eight at Henley Royal Regatta, Wilson won the 2001 Henley Prize for women's eights (from 2002 this event was renamed the Remenham Challenge Cup).[6] Wilson was then selected in two Australian senior crews for the Rowing World Cup IV regatta in Munich Germany. The coxless four won that regatta and the Australian eight placed second but were on track for possible World Championship success. A month later at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland Wilson rowed at three in the Australian women's heavyweight crew stroked by Kristina Larsen to win Australia's first ever women's eight World Championship title.[4] With their excellent pre-Championship form Wilson doubled-up with Jo Lutz, Jane Robinson and Victoria Roberts in the coxless four and also won gold. Wilson came home in 2001 as a dual World Champion and a member of the first Australian crew to win the women's eight event at Henley.[7]
With just one seat change the Australian women's eight stayed together into 2002. Their European campaign ahead of the World Championships saw them take a bronze medal at the Rowing World Cup II in Lucerne and silver at the Rowing World Cup III in Munich. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville Spain, the Australian eight won their heat but were beaten out by the USA by 0.45 seconds in the final. The Australians with Wilson again in the three seat just held out the Germans and Wilson won her fourth World Championship placing - a silver.[4]
Wilson was again in elite Australian crew contention in 2003. She raced in a coxless four and the eight at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and secured her place in the eight for the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan. With Wilson in the bow seat the eight placed fourth.[4]
For the 2004 Olympics Wilson was seated at five in the Australia's women's eight in Athens. In the Olympic final, the crew were fighting for a bronze medal with 400 metres to go when Sally Robbins sitting in front of Wilson at six collapsed, lying back onto Wilson's runners and preventing her from coming forward to take a stroke. The boat finished sixth and last in the final.[8] It was Wilson's last Australian representative appearance.[4]
Olympics
- 2000, Quad, 7th place[5]
- 2004, Eight, 6th place
World Rowing Championships
- 2001, Four, 1st place
- 2001, Eight, 1st place
- 2002, Eight, 2nd place
- 2003, Eight, 4th place
References
- ^ a b Julia Wilson at World Rowing
- ^ "2004 Australian Championships". Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ AIS News 2001
- ^ a b c d e Wilson at World Rowing
- ^ a b The Compendium: Official Australian Olympic Statistics 1896–2002. Australian Olympic Committee. 2003. p. 193. ISBN 0-7022-3425-7.
- ^ "Australian Henley victories". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "2001 World Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "2004 Olympics at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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World champions – Women's coxless four
- 1989:
(Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild) - 1990:
(Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu) - 1991:
(Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor) - 1993:
(Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua) - 1994:
(Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong) - 1995:
(Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis) - 1996: (Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
- 1997:
(Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker) - 1998:
(Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko) - 1999:
(Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak) - 2000: (Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2001:
(Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts) - 2002: (Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
- 2003: (Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
- 2004:
(Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou) - 2005: (Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
- 2006: (Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
- 2007: (Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
- 2008: (Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
- 2009: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2010: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2011: (Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
- 2013: (Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
- 2014:
(Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams) - 2015: (Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
- 2016: (Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
- 2017: (Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
- 2018: (Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
- 2019: (Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
- 2022: (Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
- 2023: (Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)
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