Natalie Mastracci ( born Natalie Mastracci ; born , ) is a Canadian rower who played for the Canadian rowing team from 2008-2016. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in London , winner of silver and bronze medals of the World Championships, winner and medalist of many regattas of national importance.
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| Growth | 178 cm |
| Weight | 75 kg |
Biography
Natalie Mastracci was born on June 5, 1989 in the city of Veland, Ontario , Canada .
She studied at high school in Pelham and at the University of Syracuse in the United States. She began to engage in rowing in 2007, was a member of the university rowing team, and repeatedly participated in various student regattas. She was later trained on a rowing canal in St. Catharines .
She made her international debut in 2008, when she took fourth place in the standings of oars steering eights at the youth regatta in Brandenburg. A year later, at the youth world championship in Rachitsa again became the fourth in the eights. A year later, at similar competitions in Brest, she won a bronze medal in the same discipline.
In 2011, she became a member of the Canadian national team; in eight, she won silver medals at the World Cup in Lucerne and at the World Championships in Bled .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . The crew, which also included rowers Rachel Winberg , Krista Guluan , Lauren Wilkinson , Janine Hanson , Ashley Brzozovich , Darcy Marquardt , Andreann Moren and helmsman Leslie Thompson-Willie , finished second in the U.S. women's team and won the silver olympus medal.
After the London Olympics, Mastracci remained in Canada's rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2013, she visited the World Championships in Chunju , from where she brought silver and bronze dignity awards, won in wheelless fours and steering eights, respectively.
In 2014, in the eights she became a silver medalist at the world championship in Amsterdam .
At the 2015 World Championships in Egbilet, she added another bronze award received in the eights to her track record.
Being among the leaders of the Canadian national team, I successfully passed the selection for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro - this time I could not get into the number of winners, showed the fifth result in the eights program. Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end her sports career [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Ewing, Lori . Canada announces 26-member Olympic rowing team (28 June 2016). Date of treatment June 28, 2016.
Links
- Natalie Mastracci - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Natalie Mastracci - profile on FISA website
- Natalie Mastracci (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee