Miranda Bennett

Miranda Bennett
Personal information
Born (1979-09-01) 1 September 1979 (age 45)
Years active1993–2008
Sport
SportRowing
ClubTorrens Rowing Club
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Seville LW4X
Gold medal – first place 2007 Munich LW4x
Gold medal – first place 2008 Linz LW4x
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Milan LW4x

Miranda Bennett (born 1 September 1979 in Bordertown, South Australia) is an Australian former rower who won three World Championship titles.

Club and state rowing

Bennett's senior rowing was done from the Torrens Rowing Club in Adelaide.

She contested the national lightweight double sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1999. She won that championship in 2000.[1]

Bennett was first selected to represent South Australia in the women's Interstate Youth Eight Championship contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the 1999 Australian Rowing Championships.[2] She then raced in South Australian representative crews who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta successively from 2000 to 2004 and then from 2006 to 2008. Those champion South Australian quads stroked by Amber Halliday or Marguerite Houston were victorious in this event in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008.[3]

International representative rowing

Bennett made her Australian representative debut at the 2000 Nations Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, the equivalent of today's World Rowing U23 Championships. She placed fifth in a lightweight double scull with her South Australian teammate Megan Campbell[4]

Bennett raced at both World Rowing Cups in Europe in 2001 in a double scull.[5]

She raced at the 2002 World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland in the Australian lightweight quad, and crewed in the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville in the lightweight quad scull. The crew with Zita van de Walle, Marguerite Houston and Hannah Every-Hall won gold and set a new world record.[4]

The following year at Milan 2003 with Bronwen Watson and Sally Newmarch Bennett stroked the boat to World Championship bronze.[4] Bennett was selected with Watson, Alice McNamara, and Tara Kelly in the lightweight quad for the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich, winning gold.[6][4]

Bennet, Watson, McNamara, and Ingrid Fenger competed in the 2008 World Lightweight Championships in Linz Austria. which they won in a time of 6:36.41.[4][7] This was Bennett's third and last World Championship title.[4]

References

  1. ^ "LW2X History at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. ^ "1999 Australian Championships". Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. ^ "2004 Interstate Regatta". Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Miranda Bennett". World Rowing. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  5. ^ "2001 World Championships". Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  6. ^ "2007 World Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  7. ^ "2008 World Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.