Sally Causby (born 26 November 1977 in

Gawler, South Australia Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about north of th ...

) is an Australian former rower – a national champion and two time World Champion.

Club and state rowing

A South Australian, Causby's senior rowing was done with the

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. Causby contested the Australian national lightweight quad sculls championship in composite crews and wearing her Adelaide colours four times for four victories in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Causby raced in South Australian representative women's lightweight quad sculls who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta in 2001, 2002 (to victory as stroke), 2003 (to a convincing 7 second victory).

International representative rowing

Causby 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

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at the

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in Zagreb, Croatia and Causby won a silver medal crewed with

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and

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.Causby at World Rowing
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won the gold medal and the lightweight quad scull world championship title. They set two world records in the process. In 2002 teamed with Halliday in a double scull, Causby won her second World Championship title at Seville 2002. They stayed together for Milan 2003 and won the silver medal in the double scull. In 2004, she injured an

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and was forced to take the year off, thus missing the Olympic selection regatta.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Causby, Sally 1977 births Living people Australian female rowers Sportswomen from South Australia World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia People from Gawler, South Australia 21st-century Australian women