Amanda Bateman

Amanda Bateman (born 3 July 1996) is an Australian representative rower. She is a national champion, has represented at underage and senior world championships and is a 2021 Tokyo Olympian where she competed in the Australian women's double-scull.

Club and state rowing Born in Melbourne, Bateman was educated at Firbank Girls' Grammar School. Her senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. She is the younger sister of Katrina Bateman who is also an elite rower who has competed for Mercantile, her state of Victoria and Australia.

Amanda's state representative debut for Victoria came in 2016 in the women's youth eight which contested and placed second in the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 2018 she rowed in the four seat of the Victorian women's eight which won the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 2021 and 2023 she raced to further Queen's Cup victories in the Victorian women's eight.

Bateman raced in Mercantile colours contesting the women's eight event at the 2017 Australian Rowing Championships. In 2018 and 2019 she raced in Mercantile quad sculls for the women's quad scull title. In 2021 she won Australian Championship titles in the women's single scull and in a double scull with Tara Rigney. In that same regatta in a quad scull she finished in second place contesting the 2021 women's quad title. At the 2023 Australian Rowing Championships she won the quad scull national title in a composite crew.

International representative rowing Bateman made her Australian representative debut at the 2013 Junior World Rowing Championships in Trakai Lithuania where she rowed in the Australian quad scull to a seventh placing. In 2014 she again raced at the Junior World Rowing Championships in Hamburg where she rowed the single scull to a sixteenth placing. The double were looking for a top eleven finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They won their heat and placed fourth in their semi-final. Bateman and Rigney placed third in their heat, fifth in the semi-final and won the petite final for an overall seventh place finish at the Olympic regatta. At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, she rowed in the Australian quad scull to an overall sixth place finish. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Bateman raced as Australia's W2X entrant with Laura Gourley. They made the A final and finished in fourth place. At 2023's WRC III in Lucerne, Gourley and Bateman again raced the W2X. They made the A final and in a tight finish at the back of that field they again finished in fourth place. Bateman and Gourley were selected to race Australia's double scull at 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. They placed third in their heat but then won their repechage to qualify through to the A/B semi in which they finished fifth. In the B final they finished 2nd, earnt an 8th place world ranking from the regatta and qualified the boat for Paris 2024.