Fiona Ewing (born 23 April 1994) is an Australian representative rower. She won three Australian national championship titles in 2019 and a bronze medal at a 2019 World Rowing Cup.
Club and state rowing
Ewing grew up in north of Sydney at
Terrigal, New South Wales and her senior club rowing has been from the
Sydney University Boat Club
Sydney University Boat Club is the rowing club in Sydney, Australia with the oldest charter having been formed in 1860 by the founders of the University of Sydney. It has had a boatshed presence in various locations on Sydney Harbour since 1886, ...
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Ewing's first state selection for New South Wales was in 2016 in the women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the
Australian Rowing Championships. She rowed again in the New South Wales senior women's eight in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and rowed to a Queen's Cup victory in 2019.
Ewing raced in SUBC colours in NSW composite eights contesting the women's eight event at the 2017 and the 2018
Australian Rowing Championships. In 2017 she also contested the women's single and double sculls. In 2018 she contested the single sculls title and placed eighth.
In 2019 she placed fourth in the Australian women's single scull championship, won the women's double scull with
Cara Grzeskowiak
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.
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and won the women's eight title in a composite selection crew.
International representative rowing
Ewing made her Australian representative debut at the 2016
World Rowing U23 Championships in Rotterdam where she rowed in the three seat of the Australian women's U23 eight to a fifth placing.
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In 2019 Ewing was selected in the Australian senior women's quad scull with Katrina Bateman
Katrina Bateman (born 8 September 1992) is an Australian former representative rower. She is a ten-time Australian national champion, winning four national titles in the single year of 2015 and rowing in successful Victorian Queen's Cup crews f ...
, Rowena Meredith
Rowena Meredith (born 27 April 1995) is an Australian representative rower. She is an Olympic medallist, a multiple Australian national champion at both U23 and senior levels, was twice a medallist at underage world championships and has won fou ...
and Cara Grzeskowiak
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.
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. 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. In that same crew Ewing was selected to race Australia's quad scull at the 2019 World Rowing Championships
The 2019 World Rowing Championships were held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019. Apart from Ottensheim, the right to host the championships was contested by Hamburg in Germany, Račice in the Czech Republic, and Varese ...
in Linz, Austria. The quad were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They placed fourth in the B-final for an overall tenth-place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.
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1994 births
Living people
Australian female rowers
People from Terrigal
Sportswomen from New South Wales
21st-century Australian women