Hannah Vermeersch

Hannah Vermeersch (born 10 September 1992) is an Australian Olympic rower. She represented for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics and at World Championships from 2013 to 2018. She won the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta in the Australian women's eight.

Personal Vermeersch was born in Esperance, Western Australia and attended Scaddan Primary School and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth. She started a Bachelor of Sports Science at Murdoch University in 2010. From 2011 to 2015 and then in 2017 and 2018 she rowed in Western Australia's senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.

In West Australian Rowing Club colours she contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. In 2012 in West Lakes, she raced for the coxless pair championship with Alexandra Hagan and finished second. She contested the coxless four title in an Australian selection composite in 2014 and was beaten out for the gold by a visiting Californian crew.

International representative rowing Vermeersch first represented at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 2009 at Brive-La-Gaillarde where she won a gold medal in the Australian women's coxless four. In that eight over a 2000m course, she helped set a time of 6 minutes 12.36 seconds, which qualified that Australian boat for the Olympics. The crew nicknamed themselves the "Motley Crew". With an Australian rowing team of forty-six rowers, she was one of the youngest members of the team. Vermeersch was seated at bow in the eight's Olympic campaign at 2012 London – the crew were disappointed with their 6th place finish.

In 2013 she rowed in the senior women's eight who took gold at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney. Half of World Cup eight were selected as a coxless four to compete at the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz and in the lead up preparation they competed and won silver at the WRC III in Lucerne. At the 2013 U23 World Championships with Alexandra Hagan and Charlotte Sutherland and stroked by Lucy Stephan, Vermeersch won gold and an U23 World Championship title. Two months later that same four raced as Australia's senior women's coxless four at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea and took a bronze medal. At the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv she raced the Australian coxless pair with Addy Dunkley-Smith. They finished second in the B final for an overall eight place finish.