Deirdre Fraser
{{short description|Australian rower}}
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Deirdre Fraser is an Australian former World Champion lightweight rower.
Club and state rowing
Fraser took up rowing in 1986 at the Bendigo Rowing Club and rowed for that club until 1990. When she began to represent at state and national level from 1991 she raced for the Melbourne University Boat Club.
On four occasions from 1991 to 1995 she represented Victoria, racing for the Women's Lightweight Four Championship (the Victoria Cup) at the Australian Rowing Championships. Her crews won the championship in 1991, 1992 and 1993.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-7.php#Fraser |title=Fraser's career at Guerin Foster |access-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421232345/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rowing-associations/victoria/appendix9-7.php#Fraser |archive-date=21 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
National representative rowing
Fraser was first selected to represent Australia, for the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna in the lightweight four. That crew placed fifth.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1991-Vienna.php#W8 |title=1991 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421163023/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1991-Vienna.php#W8 |archive-date=21 April 2018 |url-status=dead }} The following year Fraser saw world championship success at the 1992 World Rowing Championships in Montreal, Canada, when she won the world championship in the lightweight four, with Virginia Lee, Marina Cade, and Liz Moller.{{cite web |title= (LW4-) Lightweight Women's Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1992-world-rowing-championships/lightweight-womens-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=21 April 2018}} That same crew were selected for Račice 1993 to attempt to defend their title – they placed fourth.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1993-Roudnice.html |title=1993 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511054355/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1993-Roudnice.html |archive-date=11 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Fraser retired from competitive rowing in 1995. She was general manager of Rowing Victoria from 1995 to 1999.
References
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{{World champions – Lightweight women's coxless four}}
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Category:Rowers from Melbourne
Category:Australian female rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)