Robin Clarke
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Robin Clarke (born 1964) is a retired New Zealand rower.[1]
Clarke started rowing at age 13, and four years later, she was selected for the national rowing team.[2]
At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, she won a gold medal in the women's double sculls with Stephanie Foster.[3] Some weeks later at the 1986 World Rowing Championships at Nottingham in the United Kingdom, she won a bronze in the women's double sculls with Foster.[4]
Clarke retired from rowing in 1997 when she was pregnant with twin boys.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Robin Clarke". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ a b McNulty, Andrew (18 November 2007). "Robin's oar-some weight loss win". New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
- ^ "Robin Clarke". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ "Women's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
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