Jodi Winter

Jodi Winter (born 28 June 1976 in Sydney) is an Australian rower, a two-time World Champion and a dual Olympian.

Club and state rowing Winter came from a sporting family and her father had represented Australia in sailing at Olympic level. She had aspirations to be a kayaker and was spotted in a New South Wales Institute of Sports rowing talent identification program. Her early rowing training was undertaken at the NSWIS on Narrabeen Lakes where she developed her skills before being receiving support from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Her senior club membership was with the Nepean Rowing Club.

International representative rowing World Championships Winter made her international representative debut in 1996, at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Hazewinkel, Belgium, rowing in a coxless pair with Kathleen Burke. They placed fourth.

In 1998 Winter was first selected in Australian senior crews and she raced in a coxless pair and in the eight at two World Rowing Cups in Europe and at the 1998 World Rowing Championships. At those World Championships in Cologne she placed seventh in the pair with Anna Ozlins and fourth in the eight. For St. Catharines 1999 Winter rowed in the three seat of the Australian women's eight who placed fifth. Winter raced in two Australian senior crews at the World Rowing Cup IV regatta in Munich, Germany. In a coxless pair with Rebecca Sattin she placed sixth while the Australian eight placed second and were on track for possible World Championship success. A month later at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Winter was in the bow seat of the Australian women's heavyweight crew who won Australia's first ever women's eight World Championship title.

The Australian women's eight stayed together into 2002 with just one seat change. Their European campaign ahead of the World Championships saw them take a bronze medal at the Rowing World Cup II in Lucerne and silver at the Rowing World Cup III in Munich. Winter raced in a double scull with Sattin in Lucerne and in a coxless four who placed third (with the other half of the eight winning) at Munich. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville Spain, the Australian eight won their heat but were beaten out by the USA by 0.45 seconds in the final. With Winter at bow the Australians just held out the Germans and she won her second World Championship placing – a silver. and post-regatta, endured a higher level of scrutiny and enquiry than any previous Australian rowing representatives. It was Winter's, Wilson's and Robbins' last Australian representative appearance.