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Hannah Osborne

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Hannah Osborne
Osborne in 2018
Personal information
Born(1994-03-10)10 March 1994(age 30)
Waikato,New Zealand
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Sport
SportRowing
Event(s)Single scull, Double sculls
Medal record
Women'sRowing
RepresentingNew Zealand
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Double sculls
World Championships (junior)
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Plovdiv Quadruple sculls

Hannah Osborne(born 10 March 1994) is a New Zealand rower. A member of the national squad, she qualified for the2020 Summer Olympics.In a surprise move, she was selected in thedouble scullalongsideBrooke Donoghue,displacing the reigning twice world championOlivia Loe.Osborne and Donoghue raced to a silver medal in Tokyo.

Early life[edit]

Osborne was born in 1994,[1]the eldest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she grew up with her father; her siblings went with her mother. She was raised on a 3,000-acre sheep and beef farm run by her father and grandfather[2]not far fromWaitomo Caves.[3]She initially attendedPiopio College[2]in theWaitomo Districtand then switched toWaikato Diocesan SchoolinHamilton.[4]

Rowing career[edit]

While Osborne was at Piopio College, she took up rowing in 2009 and changed to Waikato Diocesan School as that school offered a rowing programme.[4]For the 2011/12 rowing season, she joined the Waikato Rowing Performance Centre and was sent to the 2012World Rowing Junior ChampionshipsinPlovdiv,Bulgaria. Competing in thequad scull,her team (includingRuby TewandZoe McBride) won a bronze medal. The following year, she raced the quad scull in the2013 World Rowing U23 ChampionshipsinOttensheim,Austria, where her team (includingOlivia Loe) came fifth. After that season, Osborne transferred to theUniversity of Virginia(UVA) for study and further rowing.[1][4]In October 2014, Osborne was part of the women's UVA eight that won theHead of the Charles RegattainBoston,Massachusetts,United States. After problems at UVA, she transferred to theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[2]

Osborne returned to New Zealand in 2015 and competed in the quad scull in the2016 World Rowing U23 ChampionshipsinRotterdam,Netherlands, where the team came first in the B-final. From the 2016/17 season, she has competed as an elite rower, initially insingle scullafter single scullerEmma Twiggtook time off rowing following the2016 Summer Olympics.[4][5]Her first international race as an elite competitor was in the 2017 World Rowing Cup II inPoznań,Poland, where she came fifth. In the 2017 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland, she came second in the B-final. In herinaugural world championships in 2017inSarasota, Florida,she came second in the B-final (eighth overall). She continued in single scull and in the following year, came second in the B-final in the 2018 World Rowing Cup II, fourth in the B-final in the 2018 World Rowing Cup III, and eighth overall in the2018 World Rowing Championshipsin Plovdiv.[1][4]In October 2018, she won the Philadelphia Gold Cup Challenge (single scull) of theHead of the Schuylkill RegattainPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania,United States. She beatCarling Zeemanin a photo finish by 0.06 seconds, with the reigning world champion,Sanita Pušpure,in third place.[6]Twigg had come out of retirement in September 2018, with her eyes set to once again be the nation's representative in single scull.[7]

Osborne at the 2018 Christmas Regatta onLake Karapiro

At the 2019New Zealand Rowing ChampionshipsonLake Ruataniwha,Twigg regained the national championship in single scull, with Osborne coming eighth.[8]Osborne took out a national title in the quad scull (alongside Twigg,Brooke Donoghue,and Samantha Voss) and the double scull (alongside Donoghue).[9][10]Osborne initially became a reserve rower for the national team for the 2019 international season. At the 2019 World Rowing Cup II in Poznań, she was called up for the women's four and the team came third in the B-final. In the2019 World Rowing Championshipsin Ottensheim, she was called up for a newly formed quad scull and the team gained fifth place in its second event this team was racing in.[1]This fifth place gained New Zealand a quota spot in quad scull for the2020 Tokyo Olympics.[4][11]Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic,there was no international rowing during 2020.[1]

At the New Zealand Rowing announcement of the female elite team in February 2021, Osborne was part of the quad scull.[12]When the crew selections for Tokyo were made in June 2021, it came as a surprise that Osborne had displaced Olivia Loe, joining Donoghue in the double scull. The Donoghue/Loe duo had been twice world champions in this discipline – 2017 and 2019. Loe was instead selected to the quad scull.[5][13]Stuff's rowing commentator Ian Anderson considered the women's double scull "to be among NZ's leading medal contenders in Tokyo".[14]Osborne and Donoghue won their heat, placed second in the semi-final and took the silver medal in the Olympic final behind Romania.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^abcdefgh"Hannah Osborne".World Rowing Federation.Retrieved13 June2021.
  2. ^abcThomas, Angus (13 July 2017)."Hannah Osborne making her sculling debut with Rowing New Zealand".We Row. Archived fromthe originalon 13 June 2021.Retrieved13 June2021.
  3. ^"'Anything is possible' – emotional dad proud of daughter's Olympic triumph ".1 News.TVNZ.28 July 2021.Retrieved30 July2021.
  4. ^abcdef"Hannah Osborne".Rowing New Zealand.Retrieved13 June2021.
  5. ^abAnderson, Ian (12 June 2021)."Hannah Osborne nabs double sculls spot in NZ rowing team for Tokyo Olympics".Stuff.Retrieved13 June2021.
  6. ^"A New Zealand Feast at Philadelphia Cup Challenge".World Rowing Federation.Retrieved19 June2021.
  7. ^Anderson, Ian (1 October 2018)."Emma Twigg among Rio returnees back in Rowing NZ fold".Stuff.Retrieved20 June2021.
  8. ^"Results: NZ Rowing Champs".Row IT.Retrieved20 June2021.
  9. ^"Results: NZ Rowing Champs".Row IT.Retrieved20 June2021.
  10. ^"Results: NZ Rowing Champs".Row IT.Retrieved20 June2021.
  11. ^"Scratch women's quad makes Olympics".Radio New Zealand.30 August 2019.Retrieved20 June2021.
  12. ^"Rowing NZ announces female elite team".Otago Daily Times.5 February 2021.Retrieved20 June2021.
  13. ^Ritchie, Ollie (11 June 2021)."Tokyo Olympics 2021: Olivia Loe dropped as last minute shake-up ends world champion rowing combo".Newshub.Retrieved13 June2021.
  14. ^Anderson, Ian (10 June 2021)."NZ pair set for double duty at Tokyo Olympics when rowing team is named".Stuff.Retrieved13 June2021.

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