Stephanie Foster
Stephanie Charlene Foster , after marriage Stephanie Charlene Cooper , MBE (born September 2, 1958 in Morrinsville ) is a former New Zealand rower . She won the world championship bronze in singles in 1982 and in doubles in 1986 .
Athletic career
The 1.81 m tall Stephanie Foster took part in the 1978 World Championships on Lake Karapiro. She won the B final both in the four with helmsman and in the eight .
Three years later she competed at the World Championships in Munich in 1981 in the single and finished fifth. In the following year, Irina Fetissowa, third from the Soviet Union, won by nine hundredths of a second ahead of Romanian Valeria Răcilă ; Stephanie Foster won the bronze medal 1.78 seconds behind the winner. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Foster also competed in one. In her run she finished second behind Valeria Răcilă. After a second place in the intermediate run and a fourth place in the semi-finals, she won the B-final and thus finished seventh in the overall standings.
1985 Foster formed a double scull with Robin Clarke , the two achieved fourth place at the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel. In 1986 the 1986 Commonwealth Games took place in Edinburgh . Foster won both the competition in singles and, together with Robin Clarke, the competition in double sculls. The 1986 World Championships took place in Nottingham three weeks later . In a double scull, Clarke and Foster won the bronze medal behind the boats from Romania and the GDR.
In 1987 Stephanie Foster was inducted into the Order of the British Empire for her services to rowing .
Web links
- Stephanie Foster at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Stephanie Foster in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ World Cup 1982 single final at worldrowing.com
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1018
- ↑ Entry at thecgf.com
- ↑ Supplement to The Gazette of June 12, 1987 (accessed June 21, 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foster, Stephanie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foster, Stephanie Charlene (full name); Cooper, Stephanie Charlene (husband) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morrinsville |