Margot Foster

Margot Elizabeth Foster AM (born 3 October 1958) is an Australian Olympic rowing medallist and lawyer.

Personal Foster attended Presbyterian Ladies' College Melbourne. Foster completed a Bachelor of Law/Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1980 and a Masters of Business Administration at Monash University in 1994.

Foster's father John competed for Australia in water polo at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics, and her brother Peter won the bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m kayaking event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Rowing Foster's rowing career started in 1978 with Trinity College, University of Melbourne. In 1980, she was selected in the University of Melbourne's Women’s Eight to compete at the national championship. She stroked the Women's Coxed Four to a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was Australia's first Olympic medal in women's rowing.

In 2021, she was appointed a member of Sport Integrity Australia Advisory Council.

Olympic positions include: Director of the 1996 Melbourne Olympic Bid Committee, inaugural Deputy Chair of Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Athletes' Commission, Member of the AOC's Education Commission and Member and former President of the Olympians Club of Victoria.