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| Nickname(s) | Minnie | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 Sept 1969 | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Melbourne University | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Architect | ||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1986–2000 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||
| Club | MUBC | ||||||||||||||||
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Marina Cade (born 9 September 1969 in Melbourne) is an Australian former World Champion rower. A lightweight sweep oar rower and later a sculler, her senior rowing was with the Melbourne University Boat Club.
Cade took up rowing at school at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne and continued on at Melbourne University Boat Club where she commenced her studies in Architecture in 1986. During this time she was a resident at Ormond College.
On eight occasions from 1987 to 1998 she represented Victoria, racing for the Interstate Women's Lightweight Four Championship (the Victoria Cup) at the Australian Rowing Championships. She crewed in boats which won that championship in 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 and 1998. She stroked the 1993 crew. [1] Late in her career she represented for Victoria in a quad scull at the Interstate Regatta at the 2000 Australian Rowing Championships.
When still only in her second year out of school, Cade was first selected to represent Australia, for the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen to stroke the lightweight four. That crew placed fourth. [2] The following year at Milano 1988 Cade was in the lightweight coxless four that took the silver medal. [3] She stroked the Australian lightweight pair at the World Student Games in 1989. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna, Cade was in the three seat of the lightweight coxless four as well as racing in the bow seat of Australia's open women's eight. [4]
World Championship success came to Cade at the 1992 World Rowing Championships in Montreal, Canada, when she won the world championship in the lightweight four, with Virginia Lee, Deirdre Fraser, and Liz Moller. [5] That same crew were selected for Račice 1993 to attempt to defend their title – they placed fourth. [6]
Cade retired from competitive rowing in 2000. She has practised as an architect.
Peter Thomas AntonieOAM is an Australian former rower. He is an Olympic & Commonwealth games gold medallist and world champion. He is regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever rowers figuring in senior representative squads consistently from 1977 to 1996 and representing Australia on eighteen occasions at three Olympics and fifteen World Rowing Championships. He competed at the highest levels as both a sculler and a sweep oarsman, in both lightweight and open divisions, across all boat classes. He won twenty-nine Australian national championship titles in his career.
Sally Newmarch, now known as Sally Callie, is an Australian former rower – a four-time national champion, a medal winning national representative who competed at World Rowing Championships from 1993 to 2004 and a three time Olympian.
Anthony John Edwards is an Australian former lightweight rower. He is a five time Olympian, triple Olympic medallist, a world champion and a six-time Australian national champion. He represented Australia at the premier world regattas consistently over a twenty-year period from 1993 to 2012.
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Simon Burgess is an Australian national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and dual Olympic silver medal-winning lightweight rower. He represented Australia ten times at World Rowing Championships between 1990 and 2002. He won world and national championships in both sculls and in sweep-oared boat classes during an eighteen-year elite level career.
Paul Reedy is an Australian former rower. He is a dual Olympian, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medalist who competed over a seventeen-year period at the elite level. He was a fourteen-time Australian national champion across both sculling and sweep-oared boats and then coached six Australian crews to national championship titles. He later coached at the London Rowing Club and was appointed as British national Head Coach from 2009. He took Great Britain's lightweight women's sculling crews to Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2012 and 2016.
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Rebecca Susan Joyce is an Australian former rower, a sculler in the lightweight division. She was a five-time national champion, a 1995 world champion and Olympic medal winner.
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