Julia Wilson

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Julia Wilson is a rower from Australia, who has won Rowing World Championships gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship. Wilson rowed in the Women's Quad at the 2000 Summer Olympics finishing in seventh place.

Wilson is most famous for being part of Australia's Women's Eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the Olympic finals, the boat was fighting for a bronze medal with 700 meter to the finish when her teammate Sally Robbins collapsed laying back into Wilson's lap preventing Wilson from continuing to row. The boat would go on to finish sixth and last in the finals.

Wilson is married to French rowing gold medallist Sébastien Vieilledent and living in France.

[edit] Olympics

  • 2000, Quad, 7th Place
  • 2004, Eight, 6th Place

[edit] Rowing World Championships

  • 2001, Four, 1st Place
  • 2001, Eight, 1st Place
  • 2002, Eight, 2nd Place
  • 2003, Eight, 4th Place

Biography at Worldrowing.com

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