Zita van de Walle
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Born | (1973-02-08) 8 February 1973 (age 51) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
Club | Sydney Uni Women's Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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Zita van de Walle (later Briones, born 8 February 1973) is an Australian former representative rower – a national champion and a 2002 world champion.
Club and state rowing
Born in Sydney, van de Walle's senior rowing was done from the Sydney University Women's Rowing Club.
van de Walle raced in New South Wales representative women's crews who contested the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta from 2001 to 2004.[1] She won New South Wales state championships in 2004 in the single and double.[2]
International representative rowing
She made her first Australian senior representative appearance in the lightweight quad at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain. With Marguerite Houston, Miranda Bennett and Hannah Every-Hall she rowed to a gold medal, a World Championship title and a new world record time.[3] It was Australia's second successive World Championship win in this boat class.
van de Walle was Australia's lightweight single sculls entrant to the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Milan. She placed fourteenth[4] For the lightweight only World Championships in 2004 (being an Olympic year), Australia selected a development squad for the next Olympiad. van der Walle made the quad scull which placed seventh.[5] It was her last international outing in Australian colours.[4]
Personal
Zita is married to the Spanish rowing coach Gonzalo Briones.[6] She has coached Sydney Uni women's crews as Zita Briones and is an accountant.
References
- Zita van de Walle at World Rowing
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- 1997: (Christiane Brand, Nicole Faust, Christine Morawitz, Gunda Reimers)
- 1998: (Nicole Faust, Anna Kleinz, Christine Morawitz, Valerie Viehoff)
- 1999: (Molly Brock, Mary Angie Cummins, Sara Den Besten, Sherri Kiklas)
- 2000: (Maja Darmstadt, Michelle Darvill, Anna Kleinz, Karin Stephan)
- 2001: (Catriona Roach, Sally Causby, Amber Halliday, Josephine Lips)
- 2002: (Zita van de Walle, Marguerite Houston, Miranda Bennett, Hannah Every-Hall)
- 2003: (Li Quan, Deng Yanping, Tan Meiyun, Zhou Weijuan)
- 2004: (Wang Yanni, Deng Yanping, Tan Meiyun, Zhou Weijuan)
- 2005: (Tracy Cameron, Mara Jones, Elizabeth Urbach, Melanie Kok)
- 2006: (Yu Hua, Chen Haixia, Fan Xuefei, Liu Jing)
- 2007: (Bronwen Watson, Miranda Bennett, Alice McNamara, Tara Kelly)
- 2008: (Ingrid Fenger, Bronwen Watson, Miranda Bennett, Alice McNamara)
- 2009: (Lena Müller, Helke Nieschlag, Laura Tibitanzl, Julia Kroeger)
- 2010: (Lena Müller, Daniela Reimer, Anja Noske, Marie-Louise Dräger)
- 2011: (Stephanie Cullen, Imogen Walsh, Kathryn Twyman, Andrea Dennis)
- 2012: (Magdalena Kemnitz, Jaclyn Halko, Agnieszka Renc, Weronika Deresz)
- 2013: (Mirte Kraaijkamp, Maaike Head, Rianne Sigmond, Marie-Anne Frenken)
- 2014: (Mirte Kraaijkamp, Elisabeth Woerner, Maaike Head, Ilse Paulis)
- 2015: (Katrin Thoma, Leonie Pieper, Lena Müller, Anja Noske)
- 2016: (Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig, Imogen Walsh, Eleanor Piggott)
- 2017: (Asja Maregotto, Paola Piazzolla, Federica Cesarini, Giovanna Schettino)
- 2018: (Wu Qiang, Liang Guoru, Chen Fang, Pan Dandan)
- 2019: (Giulia Mignemi, Greta Martinelli,Silvia Crosio, Arianna Noseda)
- 2022: (Ilaria Corazza, Giulia Mignemi, Silvia Crosio, Arianna Noseda)