Jacinta Edmunds

Jacinta Edmunds (born 5 October 1994) is an Australian former representative rower. She was twice an Australian champion and a medallist at the 2018 and 2019 World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing Raised in Brisbane, Edmunds' is the daughter of 1984 Olympic bronze medal winning rower Ian Edmunds and the sister of Olympian rower Madeleine Edmunds. Jacinta was educated at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School at Ascot and her senior rowing has been from the Commercial Rowing Club in Brisbane.

Her state representative debut for Queensland came in the 2012 youth eight which contested the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Senior state honours came for Edmunds in 2018 when she rowed behind her sister Maddie in Queensland's women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the 2018 Interstate Regatta. In 2019 she stroked the Queensland women's eight who placed fourth in the Queen's Cup.

In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight who won the women's eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships and in a composite Australian selection four she won the 2018 women's coxless four national title.

International representative rowing Edmunds made her Australian representative debut in a junior quad scull at the 2012 Junior World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv. That quad placed tenth overall. From 2014 to 2016 she represented Australia at World Rowing U23 Championships. The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They placed second in their heat, came through the repechage and led in the final from the start and at all three 500m marks till they were overrun by New Zealand by 2.7secs. The Australian eight took the silver medal and qualified for Tokyo 2020.

Coaching After competition, Edmunds held coaching roles at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School in Brisbane.