Annabelle McIntyre

Annabelle McIntyre (born 12 September 1996) is an Australian national representative rower. She is an Olympic champion, a multiple Australian national champion and won medals at the 2019 World Rowing Championships and 2018 World Championships. She was selected as a 2021 Tokyo Olympian and doubled-up, racing both the Australian coxless pair and the coxless four. In the four she stroked the Australian crew to a gold medal victory.

Club and state rowing Raised in Hamilton Hill, Western Australia McIntyre took up rowing in 2013 at the Fremantle Rowing Club.

Her state representative debut for Western Australia came in the 2014 youth eight which contested the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She made West Australia's senior women's eight in 2015 and contested the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta for WA in 2015 and from 2017 to 2021. In 2018 she was also Western Australia's single sculls entrant racing for the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. She placed third in the single scull. In 2019 she was seated in the West Australian women's eight who placed third in the Queen's Cup. In 2021 and 2022 she again rowed in the WA Queen's Cup eight, stroking that crew in 2022.

In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight which won the open women's eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships and in a composite Australian selection four she won the 2018 open women's coxless four national title. At the New South Wales State Championships in February 2020 she rowed in crews which won the women's elite pair and the women's elite coxless four. In 2021 rowing with Jessica Morrison she won an Australian Championship title in the open women's coxless pair.

International representative rowing McIntyre made her Australian representative debut in a coxless pair at the 2017 World Rowing U23 Championships. Rowing with Bronwyn Cox she won a silver medal.

McIntyre was picked in the Australian women's sweep squad for the 2019 international season. With Jessica Morrison she was selected to race the coxless pair and they took a silver medal at Rowing World Cup II in Poznan and won gold in that event at RWC III in Rotterdam. The pair were looking for a top eleven finish to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics and the eight was seeking a place in the top five. The pair won their heat, quarter-final and semi-final, thereby qualifying that boat for Tokyo 2020. She stroked the Australian women's coxless four at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan to a gold medal victory. At the WRC II in Varese Italy, McIntyre and Morrison raced as Australia's 2- entrant. They dominated the field in the A final and won the gold medal.