Kathryn "Kate" Rowan (born 16 December 1996) is an Australian representative

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. She has represented at underage and senior World Championships.

Club and state rowing

Rowan was raised in Queensland and attended

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in Brisbane. Her senior club rowing was initially from the

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Boat Club. She was selected into a

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Institute of Sports program in 2021 and thereafter rowed with the

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. Rowan first made state selection for Queensland in the 2018 women's senior eight which contested the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the

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. She represented again in Queensland Queen's Cup eights in 2019 and 2021.

International representative rowing

Rowan's Australian representative debut was in 2014 when she rowed in a coxless four at the

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in Hamburg to a tenth placing. In 2018, she was selected in that Australian U23 women's eight which contested the

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in Poznan where they made the A final and finished sixth. A few weeks earlier that crew had raced at the

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III. By 2021, Rowan had switched over to sculling boats and she was Australia's sculling reserve at the delayed

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. She was selected in the Australian squad for the 2022 international season and the

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. She rowed in the Australian women's quad scull at World Rowing Cups II and III in Poznan and Lucerne.Rowan at World Rowing
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at Racize, she stroked the Australian women's quad. They made the A final and finished in sixth place. In March 2023 Rowan was again selected in the Australian women's sculling squad for the 2023 international season. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, Rowan took the seat of Ria Thompson and raced with Rowena Meredith, Caitlin Cronin and Harriet Hudson in Australia's W4X. The boat repeated its result at RWCII three weeks earlier, finishing 2nd in the B final for an overall eighth placing. At the

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Serbia, Rowan, Hudson, Cronin and Meredith were selected to race Australia's quad scull. They placed third in their heat and then 3rd in the A/B semi-final at which point they qualified an Australian W4X boat for the

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. In the A final the quad finished fifth, giving them a fifth place world ranking from the regatta. Rowan was selected as a reserve for the Australian rowing team at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowan, Kathryn 1996 births Living people Australian female rowers Sportswomen from Queensland People educated at St Peters Lutheran College 21st-century Australian sportswomen Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics