Sarah Hawe

Sarah Hawe (born 23 July 1987) is an Australian rower. She is an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a two-time world champion winning the 2019 and 2017 world titles in the coxless four. She was a winner of the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta in the Australian women's eight. She rowed in the Australian women's eight at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Club and state rowing Born in Victoria, Hawe's initial senior rowing was from the Huon Rowing Club in Tasmania. She won a scholarship to the Tasmanian Institute of Sport.

She has contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in Huon Rowing Club colours on number of occasions and in 2017 won titles in all three sweep-oared women's boat classes. She won the women's coxless pair with Meaghan Volker, the coxless four title in a Tasmanian composite crew and the women's eight title. In 2018 she won the women's coxless pair national title with Molly Goodman. In 2021 in a National Training Centre eight she won the women's eight title at the Australian Championships. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 2022 she again won the women's eight national title in a composite Australian selection crew.

In 2014 and 2015 Hawe was selected in the Tasmanian senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Eligible in 2018 to race for Victoria she was selected in the Victorian senior women's eight who won that year's Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 2021 and 2023 she was again in the Victorian women's eight for Queen's Cup victories. Sarah is also a member of the Tasmanian Institute of Sport.

International representative rowing Hawe first represented Australia in a double scull at the 2005 Junior World Rowing Championships in Brandenburg. That crew placed fifth. 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, Hawe won another gold at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. The four were looking for a top eight finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They won their heat and semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for Tokyo 2020.

In 2023 Hawe rejoined her two-time world champion crewmates of Katrina Werry and Lucy Stephan with new addition Giorgia Patten in the Australian women's coxless four for the 2023 international season. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese, Italy they raced as Australia's W4- entrant. They made the A final and won a bronze medal. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, that unchanged four again raced the W4-. In the A final they led through to the 1800m mark but were overrun by Romania and finished with the silver medal. Their two medal wins at RWC II and III won them the 2023 RWC points score trophy for the W4-. That crew was selected intact as Australia's coxless four for the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade Serbia. They placed second in their heat. They placed 3rd in the A/B semi-final at which point they qualified an Australian W4- boat for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In the A final the four finished fifth, giving them a fifth place world ranking from the regatta.