Sally Causby (born 26 November 1977 in

Gawler, South Australia Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about north of the ...

) is an Australian former rower – a national champion and two time World Champion.

Club and state rowing

A South Australian, Causby's senior rowing was done with the Adelaide Rowing Club. Causby contested the Australian national lightweight quad sculls championship in composite crews and wearing her Adelaide colours four times for four victories in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Causby raced in South Australian representative women's lightweight quad sculls who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta in 2001, 2002 (to victory as stroke), 2003 (to a convincing 7 second victory).

International representative rowing

Causby made her first Australian senior representative appearance at the 2000 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland. The next month that same crew contested the lightweight

quad scull A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated 4x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each hand. R ...

at the

2000 World Rowing Championships The 2000 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 1 to 6 August 2000 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2000 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Champ ...

in Zagreb, Croatia and Causby won a silver medal crewed with

Amber Halliday Amber Halliday (born 13 November 1979) is a former rower and cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia. She is an Australian national champion, a dual Olympian and a three-time world-champion in lightweight rowing. She rowed for South Australia on ...

, Eliza Blair and Catriona Roach.Causby at World Rowing
/ref> The following year at Lucerne 2001 that crew with Blair changed out for Josephine Lips won the gold medal and the lightweight quad scull world championship title. They set two world records in the process. In 2002 teamed with Halliday in a double scull, Causby won her second World Championship title at Seville 2002. They stayed together for Milan 2003 and won the silver medal in the double scull. In 2004, she injured an intervertebral disc and was forced to take the year off, thus missing the Olympic selection regatta.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Causby, Sally 1977 births Living people Australian female rowers Sportswomen from South Australia World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia People from Gawler, South Australia 21st-century Australian women