Bowen rower wins gold
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Updated: August 20, 2009 3:48 PM
Seventeen-year-old Bowen athlete Meghan Robinson took a gold medal in Junior A Singles Rowing competition at the 127th Henley Regatta in St Catherine’s Ontario earlier this month.
Robinson beat out 36 other competitors just to make it to the final of six rowers on Aug. 4. The final was 2 kilometres and she won it in a time of 8:39 – almost six seconds faster than a rower from the Maritimes who finished second.
“The race was long and exciting,” she said told The Undercurrent. “Your legs and arms ache.”
She’s been rowing three years, starting in Vancouver but quickly moving to the Burnaby Lake Rowing Club, where she still rows.
She is coached by “this amazing man named Dick McClure.” The 74-year-old McClure is a member of the UBC sports hall of fame and won a rowing silver medal at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
Not one to rest on her laurels, Robinson participated in the Aug. 16 60-km Walk to End Breast Cancer in Vancouver, the fifth time the active islander has participated in the walk. Also an avid singer, she studies at the Penrhyn Academy here on Bowen.
She intends to continue rowing and has plans for her rowing future. “I am hoping to try out for team BC and nationals and I want to row competitively for a university team,” she said.
–Undercurrent staff
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