Zoe McBride was born on 27 September 1995 and is a former New Zealand rower.
12 Facts About Zoe McBride
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Zoe McBride is a double world champion in the women's lightweight single scull.
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Zoe McBride is only the second New Zealand rower to win a double national championship in both the lightweight and premier single sculls.
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Zoe McBride attended Kavanagh College from where she graduated in 2013, and spent two months attending St Peter's School in Cambridge in order to train at Lake Karapiro.
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Zoe McBride lives in Cambridge and is a part-time student at Massey University.
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Zoe McBride was an outstanding competitor in the Maadi Cup, the annual New Zealand secondary schools rowing regatta, where she won three gold medals each in 2011 and 2012, and four gold medals in 2013.
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Zoe McBride first represented New Zealand at the World Rowing Junior Championships in 2012 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she gained a bronze medal with the quadruple sculls.
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Zoe McBride trained at Lake Karapiro and then represented New Zealand at the World Rowing Junior Championships in 2013 in Trakai, Lithuania.
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Zoe McBride competed in the junior women's quad scull and the team came fifth in the final.
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Zoe McBride represented New Zealand at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2014 in Varese, Italy, in the lightweight double sculls with Sophie MacKenzie, where they won gold.
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At the second regatta of the 2015 World Rowing Cup held in Varese, Zoe McBride broke Constanta Burcica's 1994 world best time by over 3.5 seconds in the semi-final of the lightweight single scull.
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Zoe McBride won a gold medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in the lightweight single scull and repeated the feat at the 2016 World Rowing Championships.