Molly Goodman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Molly Goodman (born February 19, 1993 in Rose Park , South Australia ) is an Australian rower . In 2017 she became world champion in the foursome without a tax woman .

Athletic career

Molly Goodman started in 2011 in a quadruple scull at the Junior World Championships , but only finished tenth. 2013 she reached the eighth to fourth place at the U23 World Championships . In 2014 she was part of the crew of the Australian women's eight, and at the 2014 World Championships , the boat took tenth place. In 2015, Goodman formed a two-man without helmsman with Genevieve Horton , who finished thirteenth at the World Championships .

In 2016 Molly Goodman tried to fight for a starting place for the Olympic Games 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, Goodman competed in two boat classes at the World Cup in Poznan. Together with Sarah Hawe , she took third place in the two without a helmsman. The foursome without a helmsman with Katrina Werry , Lucy Stephan . Hawe and Goodman won. At the World Cup final in Lucerne, Hawe and Goodman started with only four and won. 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, Goodman moved to eighth. The Australians won the World Cup in Poznan and finished second behind the New Zealanders in Rotterdam. At the World Championships in Linz , the eighth from New Zealand won ahead of the boats from Australia and the United States.

Molly Goodman, who is about 1.85 m tall, starts for the Adelaide Rowing Club .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Profile at rowingaustralia (accessed October 8, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Goodman, Molly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Rose Park , South Australia