Margot Foster

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Margot Foster
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1984 Los Angeles Coxed four
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1986 Edinburgh Eights

Margot Foster (born 3 October 1958) is an Australian national representative and Olympic medal winning rower.

She stroked the coxed four to a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was Australia's first Olympic medal in women's rowing.

Foster's father John competed for Australia in water polo at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics, and her brother Peter won the bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m kayaking event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

In 2010, she was admitted to the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame.

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