Creating Excellence Through Rowing the australian women’s four celebrate gold at the 2017 world championships l-r molly goodman, sarah hawe, katrina werry and lucy stephan ABOUT ROWING AUSTRALIA The clock is counting Rowing Australia, as the national governing body for the sport of rowing, identifies, develops and supports our finest rowing athletes for the international down to the Tokyo stage, to represent Australia at: 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games OLYMPIC PARALYMPIC WORLD ROWING UNDER 23 & JUNIOR GAMES GAMES CHAMPIONSHIPS WORLD ROWING Rowing Australia CHAMPIONSHIPS invites you to share Rowing is one of ROWING AUSTRALIA IS COMMITTED TO: in our vision for Gold the most physically demanding sports. Training at the elite Creating world-leading training environments level takes the body to provide an edge over the competition into areas of physical extremes that few Developing excellence in athletes to be other sports can match; their very best – on and off the water demanding supreme endurance and strength in equal measure. Providing more international racing exposure for our developing and elite athletes
With only two years GIVING OUR BEST – ALL FOR AN until Tokyo 2020 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC MOMENT. Rowing Australia IN VICTORY, THERE IS NO GREATER and our athletes are: REWARD THAN BEING ON THE PODIUM WITH A GOLD MEDAL. the australian women’s four celebrate gold at the 2017 world championships l-r molly goodman, sarah hawe, katrina werry and lucy stephan ROWING AUSTRALIA 3 CURRENT CHALLENGES WITH AUSTRALIA’S MORE RECENT PERFORMANCES
Although Australia has a rich rowing history, PERFORMANCE HISTORY and once dominated, the world has now Medals in Olympic events* – 4 year rolling average caught up.
We have fallen well below the leading rowing nations and this inspired us to make significant changes across our systems GERMANY GREAT NEW ZEALAND BRITAIN beginning with the lead up to the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games. GOLD Today’s leading nations have more MEDALS resources and funding support AUSTRALIA available for their elite rowers. Now, we want to change the story; make history and go for Olympic and Paralympic Gold. Rowing Australia is giving its all to make this happen, but we need your help. GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY To be competitive and regain our position at the NEW ZEALAND top of world rowing requires great dedication, leadership and resources, to help propel our TOTAL AUSTRALIA boats across the finish line first and build MEDALS a culture of excellence.