Grace Prendergast

Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast after the award ceremony in two at the 2015 World Cup

Grace Prendergast (born June 30, 1992 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand rower . By 2019 she won four world championship titles in three different boat classes.

Career

Grace Prendergast won the 2010 Junior World Championships with the four-man without a helmsman . In 2012 she finished fourth with the four at the U23 World Championships . In 2013 Prendergast made his debut in the Rowing World Cup as a member of the New Zealand eight , after a fifth place in Sydney and a sixth place in Lucerne, the eighth finished seventh at the world championships . In 2014, Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast took second place in the two without a helmsman at the World Cup in Lucerne. Two weeks later, the two won the U23 World Championships. One month after the U23 World Championships, the 2014 World Championships took place in Amsterdam. There Gowler and Prendergast competed together with Kayla Pratt and Kelsey Bevan in a four without a helmsman, the New Zealand crew won the title in the world best time of 6: 14.360 min.

In 2015, Gowler and Prendergast took third place in the two-man at the World Cup in Varese, in Lucerne the two came second behind the Britons Helen Glover and Heather Stanning . In Lucerne, the two New Zealanders also competed in eighth and finished second in this boat class behind the Canadians. Even with the world championships in 2015 on the d'Aiguebelette Lac occurred Gowler and Prendergast in two boat classes. Glover and Stanning won the two, Gowler and Prendergast received the silver medal. In the eighth, the US eight won ahead of the New Zealanders, who competed in the line-up of Kayla Pratt, Emma Dyke , Ruby Tew , Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Gowler, Genevieve Behrent , Rebecca Scown and helmsman Frances Turner . The following year, the New Zealand eighth finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

With Kerri Gowler, Prendergast went into the two-without in 2017 and won two regattas of the Rowing World Cup as well as the gold medal at the World Championships in Florida. In 2018 Prendergast and Gowler won the World Cup regattas in Linz and Lucerne, and at the World Championships in Plovdiv the New Zealanders won silver behind the Canadians. In 2019, Gowler and Prendergast competed both in two and eight and won two gold medals at the World Championships in Linz .

Web links

• Grace Prendergast at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Grace Prendergast in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )