Lucy Stephan

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Lucy Stephan (born December 10, 1991 in Nhill , Victoria ) is an Australian rower . In 2017 and 2019 she became world champion in the four without a tax woman .

Athletic career

Lucy Stephan won the silver medal in the foursome without a helmsman at the U23 World Championships in 2012. In 2013 she won the World Cup in Sydney with the Australian eighth , in Lucerne she took third place in the four. After the victory of the four at the U23 World Championships, Lucy Stephan competed in two boat classes at the World Championships in the adult class. She won the bronze medal in a foursome and finished fifth with eighth. In 2014 Stephan started with Charlotte Sutherland in a two-man team without a helmsman , and at the world championships the two took fifth place. A year later, Stephan reached eighth place at the World Championships with the Australian eighth , only the first five boats secured a starting place for the 2016 Olympic Games.

In 2016, Lucy Stephan continued trying to fight for the right to start in Rio de Janeiro with the Australian eighth. The Romanians and Dutch women qualified in the decisive regatta in Lucerne, while the Australians, third in the race, missed the Olympic qualification by three seconds. After the already qualified Russians were banned from participating in the Olympics after the publication of the McLaren Report , the Australians moved up. In the Olympic regatta , the Australians were the last boat of the repechage race to fail to reach the A-final and took seventh place.

In 2017 Stephan won the World Cup in Poznan in a four without a helmsman, at the World Cup final in Lucerne Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry , Sarah Hawe and Molly Goodman won in a four, Werry and Stephan also took fifth place in a two. The third and most important regatta victory for the four-man in the 2017 season was the title win at the World Championships in Sarasota . In 2018 the Australian foursome won the World Cup regattas in Linz and Lucerne, and at the World Championships in Plovdiv the Australians won silver behind the US foursome. In 2019, Olympia Aldersey came on board for Goodman. In the line-up of Aldersey, Werry, Hawe and Stephan, the crew won the World Cup finals in Rotterdam and the World Championships in Linz .

The approximately 1.75 m tall Lucy Stephan starts for the Melbourne University Boat Club .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Profile at rowingaustralia (accessed October 8, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Stephan, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Nhill , Victoria