Patricia Obee
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Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Victoria, British Columbia | October 31, 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Victoria City Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Patricia Obee (born October 31, 1991) is a Canadian rower from Victoria, British Columbia. Obee won a silver at the 2016 Olympics, 2011 World Rowing Championships and 2014 World Rowing Championships in the lightweight women's double sculls.[1]
Career
Obee teamed up with Lindsay Jennerich in the women's lightweight double sculls in 2011, after Jennerich's previous teammate, Tracy Cameron, was injured.[2] Before this, Obee had won a medal in the single lightweight scull event at the 2011 under 23 World Championship, having made her international debut in 2010 after starting to row in high school.[2]
Together Obee and Jennerich won silver at the 2011 World Rowing Championships.[3] The team competed in the lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in 7th place.[2][4][5] After the Olympics, she started a degree in anthropology at the University of Washington.[2]
Obee briefly returned to the lightweight single scull in 2013, before reteaming with Jennerich in the lightweight double scull.[2] The team went on to win silver at the 2014 World Championships.[3] At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, Obee won a silver medal in the lightweight doubles, also with Lindsay Jennerich.[6]
References
- ^ "Canada claims silver at rowing worlds". CBC Sports. September 4, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Patricia Obee". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ a b "World Rowing - Patricia OBEE". World Rowing. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ Ewing, Lori (June 28, 2016). "Canada announces 26-member Olympic rowing team". Canadian Press. Toronto, Canada. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ^ "World Rowing - Olympic Rowing: Gold for Dutch, British and French at Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta". World Rowing. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ "World Rowing - The year that was … lightweight women's double sculls". World Rowing. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
External links
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Canadian female rowers
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Canada
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada
- Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Rowers from Victoria, British Columbia
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Canadian women
- Canadian rowing biography stubs