Victoria Roberts

Victoria "Vicky" Roberts (born March 10, 1978 in London ) is a former Australian rower .

The 1.84 m tall Victoria Roberts from the UTS Haberfield Rowing Club in Sydney won the silver medal in the foursome without a helmsman at the (unofficial) U23 World Championships in 1999 . At the Olympic Games in 2000 in her hometown, she finished fifth with eighth . In the following year Victoria Roberts rowed together with Jane Robinson , Julia Wilson and Jo Lutz in the four without helmsman to the world title. In the world championship final in Lucerne , the Australians were just over a second ahead of the New Zealanders. The four rowers also competed with the eighth and also won the title in this boat class ahead of the boats from Romania and Germany. At the 2002 World Championships , Victoria Roberts was the only remaining rower from last year's four-man. Together with Kristina Larsen , Jodi Winter and Rebecca Sattin , she won the final two seconds ahead of the Canadians. All the rowers of the four-man rowed in the eighth, which fought a close race with the German boat behind the US eighth. At the finish line, the Australians had a lead of nine hundredths of a second to win the silver medal. At the 2003 World Championships , the Australian eighth was fourth and missed the medal positions by one and a half seconds. In the final of the 2004 Olympic Games , the Australian eighth was up to 400 meters from the finish in third place when Sally Robbins , sitting in front of Julia Wilson, collapsed; the boat crossed the finish line ten seconds behind the fifth-placed Germans. After a two-year break, Victoria Roberts returned to the international regatta courses in 2007. At the 2007 World Championships she won the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman together with Phoebe Stanley , Katelyn Gray and Emily Martin .

Web links

• Victoria Roberts at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Victoria Roberts in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )