Patricia Conte

Patricia Conte (* 19th February 1971 ) is a former Argentine lightweight - rower . She won two medals at world championships in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman .

Athletic career

The 1.63 m tall Patricia Conte finished last in the lightweight single at the World Championships in Montreal in 1992 . Three years later she rowed at the 1995 World Championships together with Elina Urbano to 13th place in the lightweight double sculls . In the same year, the two also won the Pan American Games .

In 1998 the two formed a lightweight two-man without a helmsman. At the World Championships in Cologne they took second place behind the Britons Juliet Machan and Jo Nitsch . In 1999 Urbano and Conte won the Pan American Games in 1999 in Winnipeg in the lightweight double scull and together with Marisa Peguri and María Garisoain also in the lightweight double scull . Two weeks after the Winnipeg Games ended, the 1999 World Rowing Championships began in St. Catharines . As in the previous year, Urbano and Conte competed in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman and took fourth place. Two years later, the two won bronze in two at the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne.