Patricia Obee
{{short description|Canadian rower}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Patricia Obee
| image =
| nationality = Canadian
| club = Victoria City Rowing Club
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|10|31}}
| birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia
| height = {{convert|1.76|m|ftin}}
| weight = {{convert|57|kg|lbs}}
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's rowing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | LW2x}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2011 Lake Bled|LW2x}}
{{MedalSilver |2014 Amsterdam|LW2x}}
{{MedalCompetition|Under 23 World Rowing Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2011 Bosbaan|BLW1x}}
}}
Patricia Obee (born October 31, 1991) is a Canadian rower from Victoria, British Columbia. Obee won a silver at the 2016 Olympics, 2011 World Rowing Championships and 2014 World Rowing Championships in the lightweight women's double sculls.{{cite news| title=Canada claims silver at rowing worlds |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/canada-claims-silver-at-rowing-worlds-1.1045568 |publisher=CBC Sports |date=September 4, 2011}}
Career
Obee teamed up with Lindsay Jennerich in the women's lightweight double sculls in 2011, after Jennerich's previous teammate, Tracy Cameron, was injured.{{Cite web |title=Patricia Obee |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/patricia-obee-2/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website |language=en-US}} Before this, Obee had won a medal in the single lightweight scull event at the 2011 under 23 World Championship, having made her international debut in 2010 after starting to row in high school.
Together Obee and Jennerich won silver at the 2011 World Rowing Championships.{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Patricia OBEE |url=https://worldrowing.com//athlete/patricia-obee |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}} The team competed in the lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in 7th place.{{cite news |last=Ewing |first=Lori |date=June 28, 2016 |title=Canada announces 26-member Olympic rowing team |newspaper=Canadian Press |location=Toronto, Canada |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/rowing/canada-olympic-rowing-crews-announced-1.3655741 |access-date=June 28, 2016}}{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Olympic Rowing: Gold for Dutch, British and French at Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta |url=https://worldrowing.com/2016/08/12/olympic-rowing-gold-for-dutch-british-and-french-rio-olympic-rowing-regatta/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}} After the Olympics, she started a degree in anthropology at the University of Washington.
Obee briefly returned to the lightweight single scull in 2013, before reteaming with Jennerich in 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.{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - The year that was … lightweight women’s double sculls |url=https://worldrowing.com/2016/11/21/the-year-that-was-lightweight-women-double-sculls/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415054432/http://www.rowingcanada.org/national_team/bios/lw_bios_2011/ Profile at Rowing Canada]
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Category:Canadian female rowers
Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic rowers for Canada
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada
Category:Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers from Victoria, British Columbia
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen
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