Robin Clarke
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Robin Clarke (born 1963/1964) is a retired New Zealand rower.[1]
Clarke started rowing at age 13, and four years later, she was selected for the national rowing team.[2]
At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, she won a gold medal in the women's double sculls with Stephanie Foster.[3] Some weeks later at the 1986 World Rowing Championships at Nottingham in the United Kingdom, she won a bronze in the women's double sculls with Foster.[4]
Clarke retired from rowing in 1997 when she was pregnant with twin boys; she separated from her partner before the children were born. She experienced problems with weight gain after giving birth and reached a maximum weight of 135 kilograms (298 lb) before losing 50 kilograms (110 lb).[2]
References
- ↑ "Robin Clarke". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- 1 2 McNulty, Andrew (18 November 2007). "Robin's oar-some weight loss win". New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
- ↑ "Robin Clarke". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ↑ "Women's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
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