Paige Barr

Paige Barr (born 31 May 2001) is an Australian representative sweep-oar rower. She has represented Australia at senior World Championships and won medals at World Rowing Cups at senior and underage World Championships.

Club and state rowing Barr was raised in Bairnsdale, Victoria and attended Gippsland Grammar School, where she took up rowing. Her senior club rowing has been with the University of Queensland Rowing Club in Brisbane.

Barr first made state selection for Victoria in the 2021 women's U21 youth eight and followed this up with selection in the 2022 women's eight, which contested and won the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She raced in another Victorian senior women's eight to a Queen's Cup victory in 2023.

Racing in Mercantile colours, she won the Australian championship title in the U21 coxless four at the 2021 Australian Rowing Championships and, in 2022, won silver in the national women's U23 single scull title. She rowed in the three-seat of the Australian women's eight at World Rowing Cups II and III, taking bronze in Poznan and winning gold in Lucerne. She was then selected for Australia’s U23 coxless four to row at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Varese, alongside Jacqueline Swick and Eliza Gaffney, and received a bronze medal. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Barr raced in the Australian women's eight.