Louise Trappitt (born 15 October 1985) is a New Zealand rower. She has won bronze medals at
World Rowing Championships
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in the women's quadruple scull in 2011, and in the women's pair in 2014.
Family and private life
Trappitt was born in 1985 in
Dunedin
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, but raised in
Wellington
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.
She holds a degree in physical education from the
University of Otago (2004–2007), and later studied extramurally post graduate studies in rehabilitation through the same university (2010–2012). Trappitt did her undergraduate degree before she started concentrating on rowing.
She now lives in
Cambridge
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and is married to Olympic rower
John Storey.
Rowing career
National coach
Dick Tonks placed her in a women's quadruple scull for the 2011 season, together with
Sarah Gray,
Fiona Bourke and
Eve MacFarlane
Eve Macfarlane (born 27 September 1992) is a New Zealand rower. Described as a "natural rower", she went to the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships within a few months of having taken up rowing and won a silver medal. She represented New Zeala ...
. The four surprised themselves by winning bronze at the regattas in
Hamburg
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(Germany) and
Lucerne
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(Switzerland).
They maintained their form and won a bronze at the
2011 World Rowing Championships
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Worl ...
at
Lake Bled
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in
Bled
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, Slovenia.
In 2012, Trappitt competed with the women's quad at regattas in Lucerne (Switzerland; fourth place) and Munich (Germany; fifth place). The quad then went to the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in
London
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with a strong expectation for a medal when Trappitt "caught a crab" and snapped an oar at the 1500 m mark in the repechage. This cost the team their place in the final (they would have had to be within the first four but came last in the repechage), and they subsequently came first in the B final. Trappitt took the 2013 rowing season off.
At the
2014 World Rowing Championships
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held at
Bosbaan
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in
Amsterdam
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, the Netherlands, Trappitt won a bronze medal in the women's pair partnering with
Rebecca Scown.
References
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New Zealand female rowers
1985 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for New Zealand
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
University of Otago alumni
21st-century New Zealand women