The women’s coxless four was dropped from the Olympics for 30 years. The Australian quartet celebrated its return in style | mickgleeson
Lucy Stephan grew up in a town with a river without water. Rosemary Popa grew up with rowing in her veins.Stephan, Popa, Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre beganOlympic champions Lucy Stephan, Rosemary Popa, Jessica Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre after winning the women’s four.To put in context the significance of the win: for the past 30 years the event has not even been in the Olympics.
“I guess rowing has always been part of me,” said Popa, who rowed at high school from the age of 14, then at the University of California.Stephan’s path could not be more different. She is the accidental rower. She is from Nhill, the small, wheatbelt Wimmera town. The gold was a reward for persistence. She kept rowing on weekends and kept making teams through high school and university and now finds herself a gold medallist. She took it upon herself to be giving out medals to the other girls.Morrison and McIntyre did not have time to absorb the win and celebrate the moment, as they had a pairs semi-final to race two hours later.
“I think we got unlucky with the race scheduling, the desperation required for the semi final ... It was heartbreaking for us,” Morrison said. The women’s four was the first of the four medals that Australia won in four successive races: gold, gold, bronze, bronze. Four races. Four medals.
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