Julia Wilson
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Julia Wilson is a rower from Australia
, who has won World Rowing Championships
gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship. Wilson rowed in the Women's Quad at the 2000 Summer Olympics
finishing in seventh place.
Wilson is most famous for being part of Australia's Women's Eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics
. In the Olympic finals, the boat was fighting for a bronze medal with 400 metres to the finish when her teammate Sally Robbins
collapsed laying back into Wilson's lap preventing Wilson from continuing to row. The boat would go on to finish sixth and last in the finals.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, who has won World Rowing Championships
World Rowing Championships
The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1962...
gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship. Wilson rowed in the Women's Quad at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
finishing in seventh place.
Wilson is most famous for being part of Australia's Women's Eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
. In the Olympic finals, the boat was fighting for a bronze medal with 400 metres to the finish when her teammate Sally Robbins
Sally Robbins
Sally Robbins is an Australian rower, who was a member of Australia's 2004 Summer Olympics Women's Eight.Sally Robbins was involved in an infamous incident in the 2004 Olympics final held on 22 August. The team was third through the first 1000 metres but had dropped back to fifth with 500 metres...
collapsed laying back into Wilson's lap preventing Wilson from continuing to row. The boat would go on to finish sixth and last in the finals.
World Rowing Championships
- 2001, Four, 1st place
- 2001, Eight, 1st place
- 2002, Eight, 2nd place
- 2003, Eight, 4th place