Zoe Stevenson

Zoe Stevenson

MacFarlane and Stevenson on the way to gold in 2015
Personal information
Born	19 June 1991 (age 25) Tauranga, New Zealand[1]
Education	Tauranga Girls' College[2]
Sport
Club	Tauranga
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  New Zealand World Championships 2014 Amsterdam W2x 2015 Aiguebelette W2x 2013 Chungju W2x

Zoe Stevenson (born 19 June 1991) is a New Zealand rower. She won gold in the women's double sculls with Fiona Bourke at the 2014 World Rowing Championships^[3]

At regattas in Varese (Italy) and Lucerne (Switzerland) in 2015, she competed in the double sculls with Eve MacFarlane, winning gold in both finals.^[4][5] The pair went to the 2015 World Rowing Championships held at Lac d'Aiguebelette in Aiguebelette, France, and again won gold.^[6] Stevenson and MacFarlane qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but were beaten in the semi-finals by the US by 5/100 into fourth place, thus missing the A final.^[7] In November 2016, she announced that she would take 2017 off from rowing.^[8]

References

1. "Rowing New Zealand » Zoe Stevenson". rowingnz.kiwi. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
2. "Zoe Stevenson". New Zealand Secondary School Rowing Association. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
3. "Rowing: Double golden finish to superb campaign - Sport - NZ Herald News". nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
4. "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
5. "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
6. "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
7. Cleaver, Dylan (10 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Shock losses for Kiwi rowing crews". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
8. "Rowing pair Hamish Bond and Eric Murray put golden partnership on hold". The New Zealand Herald. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.