Karsten Forsterling
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Rowing | ||
Representing  Australia
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Quad scull |
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2012 London | Quad scull |
| World Championships | ||
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2010 Karapiro | M4x |
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2011 Bled | M4x |
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2015 Aiguebelette | M4x |
Karsten Forsterling (born 21 January 1980) is an Australian rower. He is a former world champion, a dual Olympian and Olympic medal winner.
Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Forsterling was schooled at St Vincent's Primary in the ACT and took up rowing in high school at the Melbourne Grammar School.
He graduated from Monash University in Melbourne with a B.Engineering in 2001, and currently works for the multinational consulting firm AECOM.
Forsterling rows from the Melbourne University Boat Club with whom he has had a long association.
On eleven occasions during the fifteen-year period from 2001 to 2015 Forsterling was seated in the Victorian Men's VIII who contested the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships. In those crews Fosterling saw six King's Cup victories and five times placed second. In 2011 and 2016 he was also Victoria's selectee to contest the interstate men's Single scull - the President's Cup. He placed second on both occasions.
At the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Karapiro he finished 3rd in the men's quadruple sculls (M4x) event, in a crew with David Crawshay, James McRae, and Daniel Noonan.
At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in an upset, Forsterling rowing in the Australian men's quad defeated the German crew to take gold. Following a costly mistake in the German boat, the Australian crew took the lead in the final metres and won the race by 0.25secs.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Forsterling won bronze in the Men's quadruple scull in a time of 5:45.22 in a crew with Chris Morgan, James McRae and Daniel Noonan.
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