Marion Horwell

Marion was also a member of the first women’s crew to compete at the World Championships in 1974 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Marion continued to have a successful rowing career including the 1975 women’s Australian tour in the coxed four with wins in all three test races and winning both test races in New Zealand in 1976 in both the eight and coxed four against the Australian State crews. In 1978 World Championships at Lake Karapiro, Marion was in the women’s eight finishing in seventh placing and the coxed four also in seventh placing. At the 1979 World Championships in Bled Marion competed in the double sculls. Marion has established a distinguished career in coaching with Rowing NZ, appointed as a Regional Performance coach in 2005 and selected for Under 23 and Elite team coaching roles from 2003 through to 2019 with a break in 2008 and again from 2016 – 2018. The coaching roles in the Elite team included the Athens 2004 Olympics (W2- 6th), the World Championships in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019, the highlight in these years being the Olympic Games representation and the gold medal world record time performance of the women’s four in Amsterdam in 2014.