- Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson is a rower from
Australia , who has wonRowing World Championships gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship. Wilson rowed in the Women's Quad at the2000 Summer Olympics finishing in seventh place.Wilson is most famous for being part of Australia's Women's Eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the Olympic finals, the boat was fighting for a bronze medal with 400 metres to the finish when her teammate
Sally Robbins collapsed laying back into Wilson's lap preventing Wilson from continuing to row. The boat would go on to finish sixth and last in the finals.Olympics *2000, Quad, 7th Place
*2004, Eight, 6th PlaceRowing World Championships *2001, Four, 1st Place
*2001, Eight, 1st Place
*2002, Eight, 2nd Place
*2003, Eight, 4th Place[http://80.83.47.230/fiche_detail.fwx?no_id=11955 Biography at Worldrowing.com]
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