Ursula Grobler (born 6 February 1980) is a South African competitive rower who resides in Pretoria, South Africa.

Biography

Grobler was born in 1980 in Pretoria, South Africa. Until the end of the 2012 rowing season, she competed for the United States and lived in Seattle. Since the 2013 rowing season, she has competed for South Africa.

Rowing for the USA

In 2009, she won the open women's event in Head of the Charles. She won a gold medal at the 2010 World Rowing Cup I at Bled in Slovenia in the lightweight women's double sculls with Abelyn Broughton. She won a silver medal at the

2010 World Rowing Championships The 2010 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 31 October to 7 November 2010 on Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand. The annual week-long rowing regatta was organised by FISA (the International Rowi ...

at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand with the lightweight women's quadruple sculls of the United States, alongside Victoria Burke,

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, and Abelyn Broughton.

Rowing for South Africa

Since coming back to South Africa, she won a bronze medal in the Lightweight Women's Single scull in Luzern, Switzerland in 2013. With teammate Kirsten McCann, she finished 4th in the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in 2014 and won the bronze medal in the World Rowing Championships in 2015 in Aiguebelette, France. This made them the first women's crew to medal for South Africa in a World Rowing Championships. This position also qualified them for the Rio Olympic Games. Grobler competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in Rio de Janeiro, in the

women's lightweight double sculls Lightweight rowing (abbreviated Lwt or Lt) is a category of rowing where limits are placed on the maximum body weight of competitors. According to the International Rowing Federation (FISA), this weight category was introduced "to encourage more u ...

, where she was the oldest member of the South African rowing team. She and teammate Kirsten McCann finished in fifth place.

References

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