Eliza Blair

Eliza Blair (* 20th November 1976 ) is a former Australian Lightweight - rower .

The 1.71 m tall Eliza Blair from Melbourne University Boat Club took second place in the 1996 Australian Interstate Championships in the lightweight foursome, she won in 1997 and 1998, in 1999 she won the lightweight quadruple scull and in 2000 she was second in this boat class .

Internationally she rowed at the rowing world championships in 1996 together with Justine Joyce in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman on the fifth place. In 1997 the two won the World Cup in Paris. At the 1997 World Rowing Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, the two won in front of the boats from the United States and the United Kingdom. The time of 7: 18.32 minutes achieved in winning this title was not undercut in the twenty years that followed, and the boat class was not part of the international competition program from 2004 to 2017.

In 1998 Blair switched to scull rowing . In the World Cup she took eighth place in the lightweight double scull in Hazewinkel and second in the lightweight double scull in Lucerne. At the World Rowing Championships in 1998 , the double scull reached fifth place. Two years later, the Australian lightweight double scull with Eliza Blair, Sally Causby , Amber Halliday and Catriona Roach won the silver medal behind the German boat at the 2000 World Rowing Championships in Zagreb.

Eliza Blair is an architect based in Melbourne.

Web links

• Eliza Blair at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Andrew Guerin: Eliza Blair on www.rowinghistory-aus