Robyn Selby Smith

Australian rower

Robyn Selby Smith

Personal information

Born|  (1980-11-26) 26 November 1980 (age 43)
Years active| 2002–2012
Sport
Sport| Rowing
Club| Mercantile Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals| London 2012 W8+

Medal record

Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Rowing Championships
|  2005 Gifu | W4-
|  2005 Gifu | W8+
|  2006 Eton | W4-
|  2006 Eton | W8+

Robyn Selby Smith (born 26 November 1980 in Melbourne) is an Australian former rower. She is a national champion, a three-time world champion and an Olympian whose international success came in sweep-oared heavyweight crews.

## Club and state rowing[edit]

Selby Smith's senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.

She was selected in representative Victorian state eights to compete for the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships on ten occasions between 2002 and 2012. Those Victorian eights were victorious on seven of those occasions.[1] In 2005 and 2006 she was also Victoria's senior sculling representative contesting the Nell Slatter Trophy at those same Australian championships.[1]

In 2011 she won she Australian national quad scull title in an Australian selection composite crew.[2]

## International representative rowing[edit]

Selby Smith made her first international representative appearance as stroke of Australia's women's coxless four at the 2004 World Rowing Championships in Banyoles, Spain. That crew finished eighth.[3]

2005 was Selby Smith's year. She rowed in the Australian coxless pair and the eight to success at both Rowing World Cups that year in Europe and then was selected in both the eight and the coxless four for the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan. Both crews were victorious and Robyn Selby Smith finished 2005 as a dual World Champion.[3]

Robyn continued to perform at the highest level in 2006 and was again in the Australian eight and the pair who performed at that year's two Rowing World Cups at Munich and at Poznan. She held her seat in the bow of both the eight and the four for the 2006 World Rowing Championships at Eton Dorney. The eight took the bronze and in the four with Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley and Kate Hornsey, Selby Smith won the gold and won her third World Championship.[3]

In the lead up to the 2007 World Rowing Championships Selby Smith again rowed at both Rowing World Cups in Europe. She was in the pair who finished sixth at Linz Ottensheim and then was in the four and the eight for the second World Cup in Amsterdam. The four won their final. For the World Championships in Munich the selectors had a wealth of women's talent from which to choose given the high and even standard. Selby Smith was selected only in the Australian Women's eight and they finished fourth.[3]

In 2008 Selby Smith was in Olympic contention. She rowed in the Australian eight who took gold at the 1st Rowing World Cup in Munich and then in a pair who placed tenth at the 2nd World Cup in Lucerne. But ultimately she was beaten out to the bow seat of the eight by her Victorian team-mate Pauline Frasca.[3] She took a break from rowing after missing Beijing selection but was back rowing at the highest Australian national level by 2010.

Leading into 2012, she played a vital role in the battle to enable a women's eight to represent Australia for the first time since Beijing. She rowed in the eight at two Rowing World Cup events in Europe that year and in the final successful FISA qualification regatta. She was seated at three in the eight's Olympic campaign at 2012 London – the crew were disappointed with their 6th-place finish.[4] It was Selby Smith last international outing in a stellar representative career.[3]

## Post competitive rowing[edit]

Selby Smith has been club captain of the Mercantile Rowing Club since 2012. She was an Australian national rowing junior selector in 2013 to 2014. She is a solicitor in Melbourne.[citation needed]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Selby Smith career at Guerin Foster
2. ^ 2011 Australian Championships Day 6
3. ^ a b c d e f Selby Smith at World Rowing
4. ^ "London 2012 – Rowing – Women's Eight". olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 9 January 2015.

* Robyn Selby Smith at World Rowing

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World champions – Women's coxless four

* 1989:  (Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild)
* 1990:  (Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu)
* 1991:  (Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor)
* 1993:  (Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua)
* 1994:  (Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong)
* 1995:  (Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis)
* 1996:  (Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
* 1997:  (Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker)
* 1998:  (Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko)
* 1999:  (Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
* 2000:  (Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
* 2001:  (Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts)
* 2002:  (Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
* 2003:  (Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
* 2004:  (Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou)
* 2005:  (Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
* 2006:  (Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
* 2007:  (Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
* 2008:  (Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
* 2009:  (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
* 2010:  (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
* 2011:  (Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
* 2013:  (Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
* 2014:  (Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams)
* 2015:  (Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
* 2016:  (Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
* 2017:  (Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
* 2018:  (Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
* 2019:  (Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
* 2022:  (Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
* 2023:  (Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)

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World champions – Women's eight

* 1974:  (Dobler, Lehmann, Richter, Schwede, Ahrenholz, Müller, Blanke, Mosig, cox Brincker)
* 1975:  (Goretzki, Knetsch, Richter, Schwede, Kallies, Neu, Nitsche, Mosig, cox Wilke)
* 1977:  (Bügel, Steindorf, Lohs, Neisser, Sandig, Kurth, Schwede, Metze, cox Heß)
* 1978:  (Yermakova, Paziun, Antoniuk, Bunjak, Dergatchenko, Umanets, Tereshina, Pivovarova, cox Frolova)
* 1979:  (Antoniuk, Bunjak, Dergatchenko, Yermakova, Paziun, Tereshina, Umanets, Pivovarova, cox Frolova)
* 1981:  (Baltutite, Teterina, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Makushkina, Shvetsova, Umanets, Paziun, cox Frolova)
* 1982:  (Makushkina, Konopleva, Umanets, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Studneva, Doligaida, Stone, cox Frolova)
* 1983:  (Stone, Averyanova, Konopleva, Studneva, Umanets, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Makushkina, cox Khokhlova)
* 1985:  (Pukhayeva, Zakyrova, Tereshina, Suprun, Znak, Teterina, Yatsenko, Averyanova, cox Khokhlova)
* 1986:  (Tereshina, Suprun, Sakirova, Pukhayeva, Znak, Teterina, Averyanova, Tsessiunaite, cox Khokhlova)
* 1987:  (Vîrlan, Trașcă, Țicanu, Arba, Chelariu, Necula, Homeghi, Toader, cox Oancia)
* 1989:  (Bălan, Curelea, Tănase, Soare, Chelariu, Neculai, Leonte, Armășescu, cox Oancia)
* 1990:  (Șnep, Bobeică, Burcică, Cochela, Curela, Oprea, Popescu, Ciucanu-Robu, cox Nedelcu)
* 1991:  (Barnes, Delehanty, Doey, Heddle, Mahon, McBean, Monroe, Taylor, cox Thompson)
* 1993:  (Alupei, Bobeică, Cochela, Doroftei, Ignat, Neculai, Olteanu, Tănase, cox Ilie)
* 1994:  (Haacker, Klapheck, Schmidt, Martin, Pyritz, Rehaag, Wagner, Werremeier, cox Schnell)
* 1995:  (Dore, Fallon, Fuller, Kakela, Korholz, E. McCagg, M. McCagg, Tranel-Michini, cox Farooq)
* 1997:  (Damian, Susanu, Olteanu, Cazac, Gafencu, Cochela, Ignat, Tănase, cox Georgescu)
* 1998:  (Cazac, Cochela, Damian, Dumitrache, Gafencu, Ignat, Olteanu, Susanu, cox Georgescu)
* 1999:  (Damian, Dumitrache, Ignat, Olteanu, Popescu, Spîrcu, Susanu, Bărăscu, cox Georgescu)
* 2001:  (Winter, Lutz, Wilson, Robinson, Martin, Sattin, Roberts, Larsen, cox Bilson)
* 2002:  (Johnson, Peirce, Davies, Urtasun, Marten, Cox, Mickelson, Mackenzie, cox Whipple)
* 2003:  (Hipler, Pyritz, Tucholke, Holthaus, Schmidt, Zimmermann, Günther, Wech, cox Ruppel)
* 2005:  (Outhwaite, Selby Smith, Mills, Hornsey, Martin, Chew, Frasca, Heard, cox Patrick)
* 2006:  (Sickler, Cooke, Goodale, Shoop, Mickelson, Francia, Lind, Davies, cox Whipple)
* 2007:  (Sickler, Shoop, Goodale, Magee, Mickelson, Francia, Lind, Davies, cox Whipple)
* 2009:  (Cafaro, Allen, Larsen-Strecker, Francia, Goodale, Shoop, Lind, Glessner, cox Snyder)
* 2010:  (Goodale, Polk, Redman, Ritzel, Lofgren, Logan, Musnicki, Glessner, cox Whipple)
* 2011:  (Lofgren, Francia, Musnicki, Ritzel, Redman, Polk, Lind, Logan, cox Whipple)
* 2013:  (Polk, Simmonds, Regan, Schmetterling, Luczak, Musnicki, Opitz, Lind, cox Snyder)
* 2014:  (Opitz, Musnicki, Polk, Schmetterling, Luczak, Lind, Logan, Robbins, cox Snyder)
* 2015:  (Opitz, Musnicki, Polk, Schmetterling, Regan, Simmonds, Gobbo, Robbins, cox Snyder)
* 2017:  (Vrînceanu, Bejinariu, Petrilă, Popa, Bereș, Tîlvescu, Boguș, Oprea, cox Druncea)
* 2018:  (O'Brien, Mueller, Opitz, Doonan, Moffat, Eisser, Regan, Coffey, cox Guregian)
* 2019:  (Greenslade, Dyke, Spoors, Bevan, Prendergast, Williams, Ross, Gowler, cox Shepherd)
* 2022:  (Rusu, Buhuș, Ailincăi, Tivodariu, M. Bereș, A. Bereș, Vrînceanu, Radiș, cox Petreanu)
* 2023:  (Rusu, Anghel, Adam, Buhuș, M. Bereș, Tivodariu, Vrînceanu, A. Bereș, cox Petreanu)

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