Rebecca Scown

Rebecca Scown ( born August 10, 1983 in Hawera ) is a New Zealand rower. She won in 2010 and 2011 along with Juliette Haigh the world title in the pairs without coxswain.

Scown, which began with the rowing 1999, finished at the U-23 World Championships in 2005 with the quadruple sculls in third place. In 2006 she was in New Zealand and finished eighth at the World Rowing Championships in 2006 at Eton as the winner of the B-final in seventh place. By the ninth place finish at the World Rowing Championships 2007 in Munich, the crew missed the part in the Olympics 2008. Scown 2009, launched together with Emma -Jane Feathery in two without and won the World Cup regatta in Munich and Lucerne. The World Rowing Championships 2009 in Poznan occupied the two third place behind the boats from the United States and Romania.

2010 formed Scown together with Juliette Haigh a new two without, and the two also won in Munich and Lucerne. In the home World Championships on Lake Karapiro which, about 150 kilometers from Auckland, they won the title with three seconds ahead of the British women Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. In the World Cup season 2011 Haigh and Scown won in Hamburg, but subject in Lucerne against the British women. The World Rowing Championships 2011 in Bled broke out between the British and New Zealand two to a very close decision, the Haigh and Scown with eight hundredths of a second decided for themselves. The following year, Haigh and Scown occupied at the Olympic Regatta in 2012 to third place behind the British and Australian boat. A year later, at the World Rowing Championships 2013 in Chungju she reached the third place with Kayla Pratt.