Catriona Roach (born 10 May 1969 in

Bathurst, New South Wales Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement i ...

) is an Australian former lightweight rower - a national champion and a 2001 World Champion.

Club and state rowing

Roach's senior rowing was done with the

UTS Haberfield Rowing Club UTS Haberfield Rowing Club in Sydney was formed as Haberfield Rowing Club in 1925. It has occupied its current site on Port Jackson's, Iron Cove at Dobroyd Point since 1926. The club had a senior and lightweight Sydney premiership & national comp ...

in Sydney. Roach raced in New South Wales representative women's lightweight quad sculls who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta in 1999, 2000, 2001 (to victory).

International representative rowing

Roach made her first Australian senior representative appearance at the 2000 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland. The next month that same crew contested the lightweight

quad scull A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated 4x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each hand. ...

at the

2000 World Rowing Championships The 2000 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 1 to 6 August 2000 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2000 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Champi ...

in Zagreb, Croatia and Roach won a silver medal stroking the crew of Sally Causby, Amber Halliday and

Eliza Blair Eliza Blair (born 20 November 1976) is an Australian architect and former representative rower. She was a national champion, a 1997 world champion and the standing world record holder in the women's lightweight coxless pair. Club and state rowi ...

.Roach at World Rowing
/ref> The following year at Lucerne 2001 that crew with Blair changed out for Josephine Lips won the gold medal and the lightweight quad scull world championship title. They set two world records in the process. Roach was seated at bow.

After rowing

In 2008 her name was added to Bathurst District Sport and Recreation Council's International Sports Honour Board. She works in interior design.havenhand mather
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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roach, Catriona 1969 births Living people Australian female rowers Sportswomen from New South Wales World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Sportspeople from Bathurst, New South Wales 21st-century Australian women