Molly Goodman

Molly Goodman (born 19 February 1993) is an Australian rower. She is a national champion, a three-time Olympian and a world champion winning the 2017 world title in a coxless four. She stroked the Australian eight to victory in the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta. She stroked the Australian women's eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Club and state rowing Raised in Adelaide, Goodman rows from the Adelaide Rowing Club.

Goodman was first selected to represent South Australia in the women's youth eight in 2011 contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. From 2013 to 2016 she stroked the South Australian senior women's eight competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 2019 and 2021 she again stroked the South Australian women's Queen's Cup eight. In 2023 she was the South Australian entrant to contest the interstate single scull title and placed third.

In Adelaide Rowing Club colours she has contested national championship title at the Australian Rowing Championships on various occasions. At the 2017 Australian Championships she contested the national titles for a coxless pair, coxless four and the women's eight. She won the open women's coxless pair national title with Sarah Hawe in 2018. In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight who won the open women's eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships and she repeated that feat and again won that title in a National Training Centre eight in 2021. At the 2023 Australian Rowing Championships she won the open quad scull national title in a composite crew.

International representative rowing Goodman's national representative debut came in 2011 when she was selected to contest the 2011 Junior World Rowing Championships at Eton Dorney in Australia's quad scull. That quad placed tenth overall. In 2013 she competed at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz rowing the four seat of the women's eight to a fourth placing in the final.

After the Olympics Goodman continued to compete at the highest level and in 2017 she was selected at stroke in Australia's coxless four with Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, and Sarah Hawe. They competed at the World Rowing Cups II and III and as a foursome they didn't lose a race in the international season.

With Katrina Werry changed out for Rosemary Popa the world champion four stayed together into 2018 and started their 2018 international campaign with a gold medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria. The following week back in the coxless four, Goodman won another gold at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. 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.

In March 2023 Goodman was again selected in the Australian senior women's sweep-oar squad for the 2023 international season. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Goodman raced in the Australian women's eight. They led from the start in the A final and won the gold medal. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, the eight was unchanged. In the final they led through to the 1500m mark but finished in third place for the bronze medal. For the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade Serbia, the Australian women's eight was unchanged aside from some seat shifts in the bow end and Goodman again raced in the seven seat. They finished 2nd in their heat and then needed to proceed through a repechage which they won. In the A final they led through the first 1000m on a low rating of 37/38 but were rowed through by the high-rating Romanians and a fast finishing USA eight. The Australians won the bronze medal, a 3rd place world ranking and Paris 2024 qualification.