Anna Ozolins (born 12 May 1974 in

Broken Hill, New South Wales Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

) is an Australian former rower. She is a four-time national champion and an Australian representative oarswoman who won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships. She was the stroke of the Australian women's heavyweight eight from 1994 to 1995 and from 1998 to 1999.

Club and state rowing

Ozolins' junior rowing was from the Port Adelaide Rowing Club and later the Adelaide Rowing Club. She first contested the Australian Rowing Championships in 1991 when she placed second in the U19 national single scull title behind her Port Adelaide teammate

Carmen Klomp-Wearne Carmen Klomp-Wearne (born 14 May 1975 in Adelaide) is an Australian former rower. She was a four-time national champion and an Australian representative oarswoman who won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships. Club and state row ...

with whom she would go on to row at state and national representative levels. She made her first state representative appearance for South Australia, one month after her seventeenth birthday in the 1991 women's four which contested the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 1992 she rowed in the South Australian youth four. In 1994 she was back in the South Australian senior women's four which that year won the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta and was again in the SA four in 1995. In 1997 Ozolins took a scholarship to the

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and that year stroked the Australian Capital Territory women's four at the Interstate Regatta. In 1999 the women's heavyweight event at the Interstate Regatta switched into coxed eights. Ozolins stroked the 2001 South Australian eight to a fifth placing.

International representative rowing

Ozolins and Klomp made their Australian representative debut together in a double scull contesting the 1991 Junior World Rowing Championships in Banyoles. They rowed to a fifth placing. The following year at the 1992 Junior World Rowing Championships in Montreal, Ozolins and Klomp rowed the double scull to a silver medal.Ozolins at World Rowing
/ref> At the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis Ozolins and Klomp rowed the coxless pair to a bronze medal and were seated together in the stern end of the Australian women's eight who finished in sixth place. In 1995 the stern five of the eight were again all South Australians including Ozolins again at stroke. They missed the A final and finished in eight place. Other than some seat changes that eight of 1994 and 1995 was largely unchanged for the

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and Ozolins moved into the four seat. The crew with an average age of 22, had to qualify for the Games through the qualification regatta in Lucerne (SUI). The fifth placing in the final was better than predicted form and excellent when compared to the experience in the other crews. Ozolins was back in Australian representative crews in 1998 and at two World Rowing Cups in Europe and at the

1998 World Rowing Championships The 1998 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 9 to 18 September 1998 in Cologne, Germany. The World Rowing Championships are organized by FISA, the International Rowing Federation. Medal summary Men's e ...

in Cologne she stroked the eight and rowed in a coxless pair with

Jodi Winter Jodi Winter (born 28 June 1976 in Sydney) is an Australian rower, a two-time World Champion and a dual Olympian. Club and state rowing Winter came from a sporting family and her father had represented Australia in sailing at Olympic level. She ...

. At the World Championships the eight placed fourth and the pair seventh. She held her seat as stroke of the Australian women's eight into 1999 when she set the pace at the WRC III in Lucerne and then at the

1999 World Rowing Championships The 1999 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 22 to 29 August 1999 at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal ...

in St Catharines where in her last Australian appearance the eight finished in fifth place.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ozolins, Anna Australian female rowers Living people Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Olympic rowers for Australia 1974 births 20th-century Australian women Sportspeople from Broken Hill, New South Wales Sportswomen from New South Wales