Pauline Frasca

Pauline Frasca (born 1 July 1980 in Sale, Victoria) is an Australian former rower – a national champion, two-time world champion and a dual Olympian. She has represented at the elite world level as both a sculler and a sweep-oar rower.

Club and state rowing Frasca's senior rowing commenced from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne in 2001. She was the club captain in 2010 and 2011. She was back in the Victorian representative senior eight in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 and saw further victories in each of those years. Eleven total appearances for nine victories.

She was back in representative crews in 2010 rowing in a pair at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne before being selected in the W4- for Lake Karapiro 2010. In that four with Sarah Heard, Sarah Cook and Kate Hornsey, Frasca placed second in the final and took the silver World Championship medal. With Heard and Cook changed out for Peta White and Renee Chatterton, Frasca and Hornsey were in that four again for Bled 2011 and again they brought home a silver medal.

Frasca took to sculling in the Olympic year 2012 and raced in Australian representative quad sculls in the European lead-up World Cups. At London 2012 she rowed in the women's quadruple sculls with Dana Faletic, Kerry Hore and Amy Clay to a fourth placing. She still figured in representative crews in 2014 rowing at both World Rowing Cups in sweep-oared boats and then in her final Australian appearance in the women's eight who placed fourth at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.