Rebecca Sattin

Rebecca Sattin (born 29 October 1980 in Honiara) is an Australian rower, a two time World Champion and Olympic medal winner. She had success at the elite world level as both a sculler and a sweep-oared rower.

Club and state rowing Born in the Solomon Islands but raised in Western Australia, Sattin's senior club rowing was from the Swan River Rowing Club in Perth.

Sattin made her first State representative selection for Western Australia in 1998, stroking the Youth Eight competing for the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within that year's Australian Rowing Championships. She rowed again in the WA representative youth eight in 1999 and 2000. In those crews she rowed with a number of young WA oarswomen who would go on to represent Australia and win World Championship titles including Jo Lutz, Sally Robbins Amber Bradley and Angela Heitman. She rowed in Western Australian senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at Australian Championships on four consecutive occasions from 2002 to 2005.

She raced in composite crews in Swan River Rowing Club colours contesting national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships including the women's eight in 2005.

Sattin was awarded a scholarship to the AIS prior to her 2001 World Championship success.

International representative rowing In 1999 and still only aged eighteen Sattin was selected to an Australian senior women's four to race at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. They placed third and won a bronze medal. That entire four were selected to the World Rowing U23 Championships that year in Hamburg. Second in their heat, they won the repechage and in the final they were able to win the silver medal. She raced in two Australian boats at the World Rowing Cup IV regatta in Munich Germany. In a coxless pair with Jodi Winter she placed sixth while in the Australian eight they placed second and were on track for possible World Championship success. A month later at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Sattin was in the six 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. Sattin also raced in a double scull with Winter 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 Sattin seated at six the Australians just held out the Germans and she won her second World Championship placing – a silver.

Surf boats After retiring from still water rowing Sattin took up Surfboat rowing. Between 2008 and 2014 she represented the North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club at national Australian championships in Open Female and Open Mixed surfboat events.