Emma Twigg, New Zealand’s five-time Olympian, will race again in the World Rowing Coastal Championships and World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals after the flat-water season.
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In 2022, Twigg won the coastal women’s solo CW1x class and finished second in the mixed quadruple sculls at the Coastal Worlds in Saundersfoot, Wales, a month after the World Rowing Championships.
Twigg won silver in the women’s single at the Paris Olympics to go with her gold from Tokyo.
“Tokyo for me was redemption of my belief that I could be an Olympic champion and that I always had it in me and that the results in London and Rio [fourth at both] were not me,” said Twigg, who was the only sculler to challenge Olympic champion Karolien Florijn in the final, closing the gap in the third 500 before being outsprinted to the finish.
“That was the plan. I executed everything up until the last 250, when I ran out of gas. I left it out there and didn’t quite make it, but that’s sport, and I’m happy.”
Twigg, 37, is done with elite-level flat-water racing and will turn now to coastal rowing—for fun.
“I’m going to go and do the Coastal Worlds but I can safely say that my flat-water career is done. Coastal is an amazing sport but it’s probably not an old ladies’ game, so yeah, I’m just going to enjoy retirement and row for the sake of loving what I do.”
