Elizabeth Patrick is 155 centimetres tall, weighs 50 kilograms and is married to rowing coach Peter Kupcis.
11 Facts About Elizabeth Patrick
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Elizabeth Patrick took up coxing at school at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne.
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Elizabeth Patrick was selected in Victorian senior women's eights to contest the Queen's Cup at the Australian Championships on nine consecutive occasions from 2005 to 2014.
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Elizabeth Patrick steered all nine of those crews to victory.
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Elizabeth Patrick was in the stern of a composite Victorian eight who won that title in 2009.
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Elizabeth Patrick steered the Australian eight's campaign at two 2006 World Rowing Cups in Europe before the 2006 World Rowing Championships at Eton, Dorney where they beat Germany in the first heat for a place in the final.
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In 2007 Elizabeth Patrick was again in the stern at both Rowing World Cups and for the World Championships.
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Elizabeth Patrick called their races to a fifth place at World Cup I and fourth at the World Cup II.
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However at Beijing in 2008 in spite of expectations, the crew steered by Elizabeth Patrick, finished sixth overall.
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From 2009 to 2011 Elizabeth Patrick remained Australian's most successful female coxswain steering consistent domestic Queen's Cup wins, however in those years no Australian heavyweight senior women's eight was sent to a World Championship or World Rowing Cup regatta.
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Elizabeth Patrick kept competing at the elite level after the London Olympics and coxed the 2013 Australian women's senior eight who raced in a home World Rowing Cup in Sydney toa first placing.