Rosalyn Lawrence
Australian canoeist
Rosalyn "Ros" Lawrence (born 12 June 1989) is an Australian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006. She also competes in wildwater and creeking events.
Lawrence won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (C1 team: 2013, 2015, 2019), a silver (C1 team: 2017) and a bronze (K1 team: 2017). She won the overall World Cup title in the C1 category twice (2011 and 2012), as well as in 2009, when it was a demonstration event. Lawrence finished two seasons as the World No. 1 in the C1 event, in 2009 and 2012.
Lawrence also won the Sickline Extreme race in 2012 and the Wildwater World Championship in C1W in 2011.
Her two older sisters have also competed in canoe slalom. Jacqueline Lachmann (née Lawrence) is an Olympic silver medalist (2008 Beijing Olympic Games) and Katrina is the overall world cup champion in K1 from 2008.
Personal life
Lawrence was born on 12 June 1989 in Lismore, NSW, Australia and grew up in Old Bonalbo, a small country town in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. She has been living in Penrith, New South Wales since 2007.
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