Grace Prendergast
 Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 June 1992 Christchurch, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Villa Maria College[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Avon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grace Prendergast (born 30 June 1992) is a New Zealand rower. She is a national champion, an Olympian, a four-time world champion and a current (2019) world champion in both the coxless pair and the women's eight.
Prendergast won the gold medal in the coxless four at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.[2] With the women's eight, she came fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[3] At the 2017 New Zealand rowing nationals at Lake Ruataniwha, she partnered with Emma Dyke in the premier women's pair and they became national champions.[4] At the 2017 World Rowing Championships, she became world champion in the women's pair partnered with Kerri Gowler.[5] Prendergast and Gowler regained that title at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim.
References
- ^ "Grace Prendergast". New Zealand Secondary School Rowing Association. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "W4- Results" (PDF). FISA. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ Alderson, Andrew (14 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Gold for Mahe Drysdale". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "Dunham stakes claim at nationals". The Press. 18 February 2017. p. D4. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ "(W2-) Women's Pair – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
External links
- Grace Prendergast at World Rowing
- Grace Prendergast at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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