Fiona Ewing
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 April 1994 (age 30) |
| Years active | 2016 – current |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Rowing |
| Club | Sydney 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
[edit]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 women's eight event at the 2017 and the 2018 Australian Rowing Championships.[5] In 2017 she also contested the women's single and double sculls. In 2018 she contested the single sculls title and placed eighth.[6]
In 2019 she placed fourth in the Australian women's single scull championship, won the women's double scull with Cara Grzeskowiak and won the women's eight title in a composite selection crew.[7]
International representative rowing
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Ewing at Rowing Australia". Archived from the original on 25 March 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ 2016 Australian Championships
- ^ 2018 Interstate Regatta
- ^ "2019 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ 2017 Australian Championships
- ^ 2018 Australian Championships
- ^ "2019 Australian Championships". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ a b c Ewing at World Rowing
- ^ 2019 WRC entry list
- ^ "2019 World Championship selections". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2019.