Lindsay Jennerich (born 30 July 1982) is a Canadian
rower
Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is ...
. A world champion in the lightweight double sculls with
Tracy Cameron, she competed in the
lightweight double sculls at both the
2012 Summer Olympics and
2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2016 with
Patricia Obee.
Career
In 2010, Jennerich and Tracy Cameron won gold in the women's lightweight double sculls at the
2010 World Championships.
Jennerich had previously competed in the women's lightweight single sculls and had won World Championship medals at under 23 level in the lightweight double sculls with Lysanne Lavigne, and in the women's eights at junior level.
Jennerich switched to the lightweight rowing category while at the
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...
, after realising her frame was not suitable for "heavyweight" rowing at national and international level.
She had rowed since high school.
At the university, she studied
kinesiology
Kinesiology () is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, pathological, neuropsychological principles and mechanisms of movement. Applications of kinesiology to human healt ...
.
Jennerich teamed up with Patricia Obee in the women's lightweight double sculls in 2011, after Jennerich's previous teammate,
Tracy Cameron, was injured.
Together Obee and Jennerich won silver at the
2011 World Rowing Championships.
The team competed in the
lightweight double sculls at the
2012 Summer Olympics finishing in 7th place.
In 2013, Jennerich briefly dropped out of rowing, before returning to compete with Obee the lightweight double scull.
The team went on to win silver at the
2014 World Championships.
At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, Obee won a silver medal in the lightweight doubles, also with Lindsay Jennerich.
In June 2016, she was officially named to
Canada's 2016 Olympic team, and she won a silver medal in
lightweight double sculls at the
2016 Summer Olympics.
After the Olympics, she became a university rowing coach.
References
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1982 births
Living people
Canadian female rowers
Rowers from Victoria, British Columbia
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers for Canada
World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada
Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
21st-century Canadian women
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