Jane Robinson (rower)

Robinson's senior rowing was from the Melbourne Rowing Club where she started as an adult novice. Following the 1996 Summer Olympics she took a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. She represented Victoria again at the national level in 2000 winning the Queen's Cup that year in the Victorian women's eight. From 2001 at the annual Interstate Regatta she rowed in ACT crews, figuring in ACT representative eights from 2001 to 2004. ==International rowing career==

Although she was a reserve for the Australian women's quad scull who competed at the 1995 World Rowing Championships, Robinson's first international representative regatta was at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in that same boat. She beat out the veteran Australian sculler Adair Ferguson for the bow seat in the quad who finished ninth. In 1997 Robinson represented in both World Rowing Cups in Europe in a double scull with Gina Douglas in the lead up to the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, where Douglas and Robinson made the final and finished in overall sixth place. She was then selected in two Australian senior crews for the World Rowing Cup IV regatta in Munich Germany. The coxless four won that regatta and the Australian eight placed second but were on track for possible World Championship success. A month later at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland Robinson rowed at four in the Australian women's heavyweight crew stroked by Kristina Larsen to win Australia's first ever women's eight World Championship title. With their excellent pre-Championship form Robinson doubled-up with Jo Lutz, Julia Wilson and Victoria Roberts in the coxless four and also won gold. Robinson came home in 2001 as a dual World Champion and a member of the first Australian crew to win the women's eight event at Henley. With just one seat change the Australian women's eight stayed together into 2002. Their European campaign ahead of the World Championships saw them take a bronze medal at the Rowing World Cup II in Lucerne and silver at the Rowing World Cup III in Munich. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville Spain, the Australian eight won their heat but were beaten out by the US by 0.45 seconds in the final. The Australians with Robinson again in the four seat just held out the Germans and Lutz won her fourth World Championship medal - a silver. Robinson made her third and final Olympic appearance at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She qualified a double scull with Donna Martin. They finished fourth in their heat, third in repechage and made the B final for an overall ninth-place finish. It was Robinson's last Australian representative event. ==Rowing palmares==

Olympic Games Source: • 1996 Atlanta Olympics W4x two seat – ninth • 2000 Sydney Olympics W8+ stroke – fifth • 2004 Athens Olympics W2X stroke - ninth World Championships • 1995 Tampere W4x reserve • 1997 Aiguebelette W2X stroke – sixth • 1998 Cologne W4x two seat - bronze • 1999 St Catharine's W4x stroke - eleventh • 2001 Lucerne W8+ four seat – gold • 2001 Lucerne W4- bow - gold • 2002 Seville W8+ four seat - silver • 2003 Milan W4x bow – gold National Interstate Regatta • 1995 Interstate women's single scull (VIC) – fourth • 1996 Interstate women's single scull (VIC) – third • 1997 Interstate women's single scull (VIC) – third • 2000 Interstate women's W8+ (VIC) five seat – first • 2001 Interstate women's W8+ (ACT) six seat – third • 2002 Interstate women's W8+ (ACT) six seat – fourth • 2003 Interstate women's W8+ (ACT) six seat – fifth • 2004 Interstate women's W8+ (ACT) stroke – fourth == References ==