Megan Marcks

Medal record
Women’s Rowing
Competitor for  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold	1996 Atlanta	Coxless pair
World Championships
Bronze	1994 Indianapolis	Coxless four
Gold	1995 Tampere	Coxless pair

Megan Leanne Marcks (née Still) (born 19 October 1972, Queanbeyan, New South Wales) was formerly a women's coxless pair rower who represented Australia at two Olympics. She was selected by the Australian Institute of Sport as a candidate rower (based on physique and aerobic capacity) through their Talent Identification program in 1988, having had no former involvement with the sport, although Marcks had had a successful career as a junior athlete.

She initially competed at the Olympic-level in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics where her boat achieved the position of sixth in the women's coxless four final. In 1994 Slatter and Marcks achieved bronze in the women's four at the World's Rowing Championship. In the following year the pair earned a gold medal in the women's coxless pair. In 1996 Slatter and Marcks achieved a gold medal, winning by 0.39 seconds over the American team, at the Atlanta Olympics.

Marcks and Kate Slatter were the first Australian female rowing crew ever to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games.

Notable rowing accomplishments

• 1990 Junior World Championships-France, Women's Eight: 4th
• 1992 Olympics-Barcelona, Women's Four: 6th
• 1993 World Championships-Czech Republic, Women's Four: 6th
• 1994 World Championships-Indianapolis, Women's Four: 3rd
• 1994 C'Wealth Games Regatta-Canada, Women's Four: 2nd
• 1994 C'wealth Games Regatta-Canada, Women's Eight: 2nd
• 1995 World Championships-Finland, Women's Pair: 1st
• 1996 Olympics-Atlanta, Women's Pair: 1st

Post retirement rowing honours

• Order of Australia Medal
• Australian Sports Medal
• Australian Sports Hall of Fame Inductee

Marcks is honoured within her home city of Queanbeyan (NSW, Australia) by the naming of "Megan Still Court", which is located adjacent to the Queanbeyan City Council Chambers.

Queanbeyan's "Megan Still Court" immediately adjacent the City Council Chambers

She retired from the sport in 1997. She is married and has one daughter and one son.

References

• Australian Rowing Results for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

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Name	Marks, Megan
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Date of birth	19 October 1972
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