December 2021,

A new chapter in world champion rower's legend - newsroom

After falling out of love with rowing, world champion Fiona Bourke is back on Lake Karapiro, but now as a coach. And she’s collecting the wisdom of other coaches to guide the next generation of promising Kiwi rowers.

Fiona Bourke’s story has all the classic elements of a fairy tale.

Her story is of the late bloomer who worked hard to become a rowing world champion, then fell out of love with her sport and flew to the other side of the world – only to have that passion rekindled at one of the world’s leading universities.

There’s even a gruff and unpretentious hero in the storyline, who she now tries to emulate in helping other young rowers, as he once helped her.

Read the full article at newsroom

Originally published on newsroom.co.nz by Suzanne McFadden.

 

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