Rowena Geisreiter (née Davis; born ) is a former New Zealand gymnast. Davis represented her country at the

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, placing ninth in the women's individual all-around competition, and winning the bronze medal—alongside Lynette Brake,

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and

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—in the women's team all-around event. The following year, aged 14, Davis represented New Zealand at the world championships in Fort Worth, where her performance was good enough to earn selection in the New Zealand team for the 1980 Summer Olympics. However, she was unable to compete because of the partial boycott by New Zealand. Four years later, she qualified for the

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, but was not included in the New Zealand team by the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. , she lives in

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, where she is a mountain biking coach and runs cycle skills programmes in local schools.

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1960s births Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand female artistic gymnasts Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Gymnasts at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics 20th-century New Zealand women 21st-century New Zealand women Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-sport-bio-stub