Rebecca Scown

Rebecca Scown

Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown in 2010
Personal information
Born	(1983-08-10) 10 August 1983 (age 33) Hawera, New Zealand
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Relatives	Alistair Scown (uncle) Sonia Waddell (cousin)
Sport
Club	Union Boat Club (Whanganui)
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  New Zealand Olympic Games 2012 London Coxless pair 2016 Rio de Janeiro Coxless pair World Championships 2010 Lake Karapiro Coxless pair 2011 Lake Bled Coxless pair 2015 Aiguebelette W8+ 2009 Poznań Coxless pair 2013 Chungjiu Coxless pair 2014 Amsterdam W2−

Rebecca Scown (born 10 August 1983) is a professional rower from New Zealand. Together with Juliette Haigh, she won the bronze medal in the women's coxless pair at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Previously they had won gold in the women's pair at the World Rowing Cup regatta in Lucerne, 2010 and at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro and at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled.

Scown was born in Hawera in 1983.Sonia Waddell (née Scown), a fellow competitive rower, is her cousin. Her uncle Alistair Scown (Waddell's father) is a former All Black. She completed her schooling at Wanganui Collegiate School. She participated in a number of extra-curricular activities during her schooling years, most notably rowing which she took up during her final years at Wanganui Collegiate School. Her teachers saw potential in her and allowed Scown to participate in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Regatta for Collegiate.

Scown was accepted to the University of Otago to study both Commerce and Arts and completed her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Bachelor of Arts in Art History before moving north to Cambridge to begin her career as a full-time athlete.