Rebecca Scown

Rebecca Scown and Juliette Haigh 2010

Rebecca Scown (born August 10, 1983 in Hawera ) is a New Zealand rower . Together with Juliette Haigh, she won the world title in two-man without a helmsman in 2010 and 2011 .

Scown, who started rowing in 1999, finished third at the U23 World Championships in 2005 with the quadruple scull . In 2006 she was eighth in New Zealand and finished in seventh place at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton as the winner of the B final. With the ninth place at the World Rowing Championships 2007 in Munich, the crew missed the Olympic participation in 2008. In 2009 Scown started together with Emma-Jane Feathery in two without and won the World Cup regattas in Munich and Lucerne. At the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, the two finished third behind the boats from the United States and Romania.

In 2010 Scown formed a new pair with Juliette Haigh without and the two also won in Munich and Lucerne. At the home world championships on Lake Karapiro, about 150 kilometers from Auckland, they won the title by over three seconds over Britons Helen Glover and Heather Stanning . In the 2011 World Cup season, Haigh and Scown won in Hamburg, but lost to the British in Lucerne. At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled there was a very close decision between the British and New Zealand twos, which Haigh and Scown won with eight hundredths of a second. The following year, Haigh and Scown finished third behind the British and Australian boats in the 2012 Olympic Regatta . A year later, at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju , she took third place with Kayla Pratt . At the 2014 World Rowing Championships she won the bronze medal again, this time together with Louise Trappitt . In 2015, Rebecca Scown moved to New Zealand eighth, with whom she won the silver medal behind the US eighth at the World Championships .

In the 2016 World Cup, Rebecca Scown and Genevieve Behrent rowed from eighth of the previous year in two boat classes and achieved the medal ranks in Lucerne and in Poznan both in a double without a helmsman and in an eighth. The eighth won in Poznan, the eighth from Canada and the United States not taking part. At the 2016 Olympic Games , Scown and Behrent won the silver medal in a pair behind the British defending champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. With the eighth they also reached the A-final and finished there in fourth place.

In the post-Olympic season 2017, Emma Dyke , Ruby Tew , Rebecca Scown and Kelsey Bevan were four rowers from the previous year in the eighth position. In the Rowing World Cup, the eighth won in Poznan and finished second in Lucerne. At the World Championships in Sarasota , the New Zealand eighth won the bronze medal.

Web links

• Rebecca Scown at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Rebecca Scown in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )