External links
- Cara Grzeskowiak at World Rowing
- Cara Grzeskowiak at Rowing Australia (archived)
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 September 1995 (age 28) |
| Years active | 2014-current |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Rowing |
| Club | Capital Lakes Rowing Club |
Cara Grzeskowiak (born 17 September 1995) is an Australian representative rower. She is a four-time Australian underage national champion and a 2019 senior national champion. In 2019 she won a bronze medal at a World Rowing Cup.
Grzeskowiak grew up in Canberra and her senior club rowing has been from the Capital Lakes Rowing Club in the Australian Capital Territory. [1]
Grzeskowiak's first state selection for the ACT was in 2014 in the women's youth eight contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. [2] In 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 she was the ACT's representative single sculler selected to contest the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. [3] [4]
Grzeskowiak raced in Capital Lakes colours in composite Canberra crews contesting the U23 double and quad scull events at the 2014 Australian Rowing Championships. [5] In 2015 she won the U23 women's quad scull and double scull Australian championships and placed second in the U23 single scull title. [6] In 2016 she repeated those three results in those same three U23 national sculling titles. [7]
In 2018 she contested the open single sculls title placing fourth and the open double scull with Harriet Hudson for a third place. [8] In 2019 she placed third in the Australian open women's single scull championship, won the open women's double scull with Fiona Ewing and contested the open's women's quad scull title in a composite crew. [9]
Grzeskowiak made her Australian representative debut at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam for which she was selected as Australia's single sculler. She made the A final and finished in fifth place. [10]
In 2019 Grzeskowiak was selected in the Australian senior women's quad scull with Katrina Bateman, Rowena Meredith and Fiona Ewing. They rowed to a fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and then to a bronze medal win at WRC III in Rotterdam. [10] In that same crew Grzeskowiak was selected to race Australia's quad scull at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. [11] The quad were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. [12] They placed fourth in the B-final for an overall tenth place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020. [10]
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