Jane Robinson

Jane Robinson (born 12 December 1969 in Cobden, Victoria) is an Australian former rower - a national champion, three-time World Champion and triple Olympian. She competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004; and at World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003. She won World Championships as both a sculler and a sweep-oared rower. She attended Toorak College in Mount Eliza, Victoria. Club and state rowing Robinson's senior rowing was from the Melbourne Rowing Club where she started as an adult novice. She made her first state representative appearance for Victoria in the single sculls competition - racing for the Nell Slatter Trophy - in the 1995 Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships. She represented for Victoria again in that event in 1996 and 1997. Following the 1996 Summer Olympics she took a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. She represented Victoria again at the national level in 2000 winning the Queen's Cup that year in the Victorian women's eight. From 2001 at the annual Interstate Regatta she rowed in ACT crews, figuring in ACT representative eights from 2001 to 2004.