Tess Gerrand

Tess Gerrand (born 19 February 1988) is an Australian former national representative rower. She is a national champion, an Olympian who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, was a competitor at the 2013 World Rowing Championships and a medallist at World Rowing Cups in 2013.

Personal Gerrand was born on 19 February 1988 in Sandringham, Victoria. She competed at tall and weighed . From 2012, she lived in Johns River, New South Wales. and 2010. In 2007, the Yale crew won the championship in the 2 km race with a time of 5mins 48secs.

Back in Australia, Gerrand's senior rowing was from the Sydney Rowing Club. Gerrand raced in SRC colours contesting the women's eight event at the 2011 Australian Rowing Championships. In 2012 she contested the women's coxed pair and won the women's coxless four title at the Australian Championships. In 2013 she contested the women's coxed pair title at the Australian Rowing Championships.

She first made state selection for New South Wales in the 2011 women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup at the 2011 Interstate Regatta. She made another New South Wales Queen's Cup appearance in 2012.

International representative rowing Gerrand had her first call up to the Australian national rowing team in 2012 when selected in the women's eight attempting to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. and began their campaign with an Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne. With Gerrand rowing in the five seat, the Australian women's eight set a time of 6 min 12.36 secs and qualified for the London Olympics. and participated in a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport European Training Centre in Varese, Italy. Ultimately the crew was disappointed with their sixth-place finish at the London 2012 Olympic regatta.

In 2013 Gerrand was back in the Australian senior women's sweep squad and that year she raced in the green and gold at all international representative regattas. At the World Rowing Cup in Sydney she raced in the Australian women's eight to a gold medal and also won bronze in a coxless pair with Katrina Bateman.