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In 1985 Cross was in the two seat of the lightweight coxless four who took the bronze medal at the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel. In 1986 she was selected in the bow seat of the Australian lightweight four who competed at the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham. That crew placed fourth. [5]
Then at the WRC III in Lucerne they finished fifth. At the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv the Australian women's eight with Saunders in the bow seat, won their heat and placed third in the final winning the bronze medal. [5] In 2019 Saunders was again picked in Australian women's sweep squad for the international season.
In this picture of a coxless pair, the rower on the left of the photo and closest to the bow of the boat is the "bow" rower and is rowing "bowside" or "starboard". In rowing, the bow (or bow woman or bowman or bowperson) is the rower seated closest to the bow of the boat, which is the forward part of the boat.
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In a rowing crew, the coxswain (/ ˈ k ɒ k s ən / KOK-sən; colloquially known as the cox or coxie) is a crewmember who does not row but directs the boat. [1] The coxswain sits facing the bow , unlike the rowers, and is responsible for steering the boat and coordinating the power and rhythm of the rowers.
She holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. [3] She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life (2007–2009) at sea in a 23-foot rowboat.
The introduction of women's rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal increased the growth of women's rowing because it created the incentive for national rowing federations to support women's events. Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London included six events for women compared with eight for men. [32] In the US, rowing is an NCAA ...
Heather Mary Stanning (born 26 January 1985) is a retired British professional rower.As a member of the Great Britain rowing team, she is a double Olympic champion, double World champion, quadruple World Cup champion and double European champion.