2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival
14 to 18 January 2009
Sydney International Regatta Centre
2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival
17 to 21 January 2007
Sydney International Regatta Centre
The Australian Youth Olympic Festival was staged in Sydney between the 17th and 21st of January.
The rowing regatta was held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, the site of the rowing for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
The festival offered each state the chance to compete separately against countries including the Great Britain, New Zealand and China.
Following two hard days of competition the Australian state crews performed admirably with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia sharing 14 medals between them.
Great Britain led the way with a total of 6 Gold Medals. Please find below the full medal table.
A notable highlight of the regatta was the Gold medal won by the NSW Men’s 8+. The atmosphere for this marquee race had the crowd in raptures as the crews powered towards the line. The NSW crew of Luke Freeman, Luke Woods, Alistair Matthews, David Neuhaus, Andrew Connolly, Mitchell Estens, Bede Clarke, Kurt Spencer and coxswain Toby Lister held off the fast finishing Great Britain to the delight of the parochial crowd.
Other Australian crews to pick up Gold medals included the Western Australian women’s Coxless Pair of Emily Rose and Elizabeth Alderman, and the Tasmanian women’s and men’s lightweight double sculls of Carly Cottam and Ella Flecker, and Jono Hookway and Jarrod Matthews.
The competition was a terrific learning experience for all rowers who competed and also a good prequel to the World Junior Rowing Championships to be held in Beijing later in the year.
| |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
| Great Britain |
6 |
5 |
1 |
12 |
| Tasmania |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
| NSW |
1 |
4 |
0 |
5 |
| NZ |
1 |
1 |
5 |
7 |
| China |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| WA |
1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
| Vic. |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
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