Miranda Bennett
{{Short description|Australian rower (born 1979)}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}
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{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 2002 Seville | LW4X }}
{{MedalGold | 2007 Munich | LW4x }}
{{MedalGold | 2008 Linz | LW4x }}
{{MedalBronze | 2003 Milan | LW4x }}
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Miranda Bennett (born 1 September 1979 in Bordertown, South Australia) is an Australian former rower who won three World Championship titles.
Club and state rowing
Bennett's senior rowing was done from the Torrens Rowing Club in Adelaide.
She contested the national lightweight double sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1999. She won that championship in 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/WL2x%20Summary.html |title=LW2X History at Guerin Foster |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217125102/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/WL2x%20Summary.html |archive-date=17 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Bennett was first selected to represent South Australia in the women's Interstate Youth Eight Championship contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the 1999 Australian Rowing Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1999.php#WYth |title=1999 Australian Championships |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507085238/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1999.php#WYth |archive-date=7 May 2018 |url-status=dead }} She then raced in South Australian representative crews who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta successively from 2000 to 2004 and then from 2006 to 2008. Those champion South Australian quads stroked by Amber Halliday or Marguerite Houston were victorious in this event in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2004.php#WL4 |title=2004 Interstate Regatta |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504225545/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2004.php#WL4 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}
International representative rowing
Bennett made her Australian representative debut at the 2000 Nations Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, the equivalent of today's World Rowing U23 Championships. She placed fifth in a lightweight double scull with her South Australian teammate Megan Campbell{{cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/870/results/bennett-miranda |title=Miranda Bennett |work=World Rowing |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506104428/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/870/results/bennett-miranda |archive-date=2018-05-06}}
Bennett raced at both World Rowing Cups in Europe in 2001 in a double scull.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2001-Lucerne.html |title=2001 World Championships |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203115953/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2001-Lucerne.html |archive-date=3 February 2018 |url-status=dead }}
She raced at the 2002 World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland in the Australian lightweight quad, and crewed in the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville in the lightweight quad scull. The crew with Zita van de Walle, Marguerite Houston and Hannah Every-Hall won gold and set a new world record.
The following year at Milan 2003 with Bronwen Watson and Sally Newmarch Bennett stroked the boat to World Championship bronze.
Bennett was selected with Watson, Alice McNamara, and Tara Kelly in the lightweight quad for the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich, winning gold.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2007-Munich.php |title=2007 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140525/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2007-Munich.php |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Bennet, Watson, McNamara, and Ingrid Fenger competed in the 2008 World Lightweight Championships in Linz Austria. which they won in a time of 6:36.41.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2008-Linz.php |title=2008 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704153012/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2008-Linz.php |archive-date=4 July 2018 |url-status=dead }} This was Bennett's third and last World Championship title.
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing|870}}
{{World champions – Lightweight women's quadruple sculls}}
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Category:Australian female rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia