Eve MacFarlane
MacFarlane and Stevenson on the way to gold in 2015
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| Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 September 1992 | |||||||||||||||
| Residence | Cambridge, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
| Education | Rangi Ruru Girls' School | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Club | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||
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Eve Macfarlane (born 27 September 1992) is a New Zealand rower. Described as a "natural rower", she went to the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships within a few months of having taken up rowing and won a silver medal. She represented New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as the country's youngest Olympian at those games. She is the current world champion in the women's double sculls with Zoe Stevenson. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, they came fourth in the semi-finals and thus missed the A final.
Macfarlane was born in 1992 and grew up in Parnassus, just north of Cheviot. She was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch where she was into many sports, including "netball, basketball, athletics, volleyball, touch, cross-country running". She excelled at any sport she tried and Rex Farrelly, Rangi Ruru's long-term rowing coach, asked her if she wanted to try rowing, which she started in 2009. Farrelly says that "there's very few natural rowers. Eve was one." Gary Hay, one of the other rowing coaches at Rangi Ruru, describes her as a natural rower:
She possessed the natural timing and rhythm you look for in a rower. She had all the obvious physical attributes, the length of her arms and legs, incredible reach and she's strong. She was made to row really, in terms of her physique.
Macfarlane competed for Rangi Ruru in the 2009 and 2010 Maadi Cup national secondary school rowing championships, and was a member of the crews that won the Levin 75th Jubilee Cup (girls under-18 eights) and Dawn Cup (girls under-18 coxed fours) for the school in both years. Her 2009 Maadi Cup appearance guaranteed her a place in the junior women's eight that went to the World Rowing Junior Championships in August 2009 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France; within months of having taken up rowing, she won a silver medal at a World Rowing Junior Championship.Zoe Stevenson and Francie Turner were also in the boat.
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