Thursday, 29 July 2021

Emma Twigg

 

Emma Advances - By Room 1

Emma Twigg, serial Olympian, advanced to the semi finals with a convincing win in the Quarter finals last Sunday in Tokyo.


This is Emma’s fourth olympics and her fourth time advancing to the Semi finals. In Rio she placed fourth by less than a second and she has returned reinvigorated by the culture in the NZ team and she says ‘it’s an honour wearing the Silver Fern’. She also has had expert coaching tips from her nephew who said she needs to train harder. After this advice she pushed herself to row over 26km daily which she told him from Tokyo.

She is a single sculler and has been a world champion in the last 10 years.


She started rowing in high school as a year 9 and she won the under 17 championship in

2009.She is one of the best rowers in New Zealand.She won the championship in amsterdam in 2014 that was her first ever gold. The high school she went to was Napier high. The club she raced for is Hawkes Bay RC.


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2 comments:

  1. Anion Bryce, Its Aimee. This Article Is Great. I like How you added facts of the past!, This reminded me of when I created a paragraph as well, Net time I would add a quote to make the reader understand what you are trying about, also try make it also about now!
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