Jacqueline Lawrence (canoeist)

Jacqueline Lawrence started in 2006 at the World Cup in Athens, Augsburg and La Seu d' Urgell. In Athens, she reached No. 15 in the Augsburg Eiskanal she was 27 and in La Seu d' Urgell she managed the 23th Place. At the Australian Championships in January 2008, Lawrence was fifth. She has two sisters, Rosalyn and Kate, who will also start in the kayak slalom. In order to qualify for the Australian squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jacqueline Lawrence had her sister Kate, who won the World Cup race already beat. In Olympic competition, which took place in the Olympic Rowing - Canoeing Park, Shunyi, she won the first race of the leader and the tenth in the second run to sixth place, so that they as a whole Seventh moved into the finals. In it, Lawrence was able to complete the first race in fourth and improved in the second after a flawless drive to second place and thus won silver. Jacqueline Lawrence had to concede defeat, which drove out a lead of 14.3 seconds, only the Slovak Elena Kaliska. The silver medal of Lawrence was the second Australian medal in canoe slalom competitions at the Olympics after the silver medal by Danielle Woodward at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.