Elizabeth Moller is an Australian former World Champion
lightweight rower.
Club and state rowing
Moller rowed from
Canberra
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in the
Australian Capital Territory
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(ACT) for the Canberra Rowing Club. She first raced at the
Australian Rowing Championships
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in 1990 in an under-19 pair and then in 1991 in an under-23 pair.
Moller was selected to represent the ACT at the Interstate Regatta within the
Australian Rowing Championships
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on the rare occasions in the 1990s when the ACT boated representative crews – in 1998 in an open women's
four
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and 1999 in the open women's
eight.
National representative rowing
Moller was first selected to represent Australia and saw immediate success at the
1992 World Rowing Championships
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in
Montreal
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, Canada, when she won the world championship in the lightweight four, with
Virginia Lee,
Marina Cade
Marina Cade (born 9 September 1969 in Melbourne) is an Australian former representative rower. A lightweight sweep oar rower and later a sculler, her senior rowing was with the Melbourne University Boat Club. She was a 1992 world champion.
Club ...
, and
Deirdre Fraser
Deirdre Fraser is an Australian former World Champion lightweight rower.
Club and state rowing
Fraser took up rowing in 1986 at the Bendigo Rowing Club and rowed for that club until 1990. When she began to represent at state and national level ...
. That same crew were selected for
Račice 1993 to attempt to defend their title – they placed fourth.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Sportspeople from Canberra
Australian female rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Living people
20th-century Australian women
Sportswomen from the Australian Capital Territory