{{Short description|Canadian rower (born 1982)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Lindsay Jennerich | image = LW2x final (5177971933).jpg | caption = Jennerich and Cameron (lane 4) on their way to win gold at the 2010 World Rowing Championships | nationality = Canadian | club = Victoria City Rowing Club | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|7|30}} | birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia | height = {{convert|1.65|m|ftin}} | weight = {{convert|58|kg|lbs}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's rowing }} {{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | LW2x}} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2010 Karapiro | LW2x }} {{MedalSilver | 2011 Bled | LW2x }} {{MedalSilver | 2014 Amsterdam | LW2x }} }}
'''Lindsay Jennerich''' (born 30 July 1982) is a Canadian rower. A world champion in the lightweight double sculls with Tracy Cameron, she competed in the lightweight double sculls at both the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2016 with Patricia Obee.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2010-world-championships/lightweight-womens-double-sculls/final/ |title=2010 Lightweight Women's Double Sculls – Final |date=5 November 2010 |accessdate=8 April 2015 |website=www.worldrowing.com }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Patricia Obee |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/patricia-obee-2/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career == In 2010, Jennerich and Tracy Cameron won gold in the women's lightweight double sculls at the 2010 World Championships.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Lindsay JENNERICH |url=https://worldrowing.com//athlete/12995 |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref> Jennerich had previously competed in the women's lightweight single sculls and had won World Championship medals at under 23 level in the lightweight double sculls with Lysanne Lavigne, and in the women's eights at junior level.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Lindsay Jennerich |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/lindsay-jennerich-2/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website |language=en-US}}</ref> Jennerich switched to the lightweight rowing category while at the University of Victoria, after realising her frame was not suitable for "heavyweight" rowing at national and international level.<ref name=":3" /> She had rowed since high school.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lindsay Jennerich {{!}} Canadian Athletes Now |url=https://canadianathletesnow.ca/athletes/lindsay-jennerich/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |language=en-US}}</ref> At the university, she studied kinesiology.<ref name=":3" />
Jennerich teamed up with Patricia Obee in the women's lightweight double sculls in 2011, after Jennerich's previous teammate, Tracy Cameron, was injured.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Patricia Obee |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/patricia-obee-2/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website |language=en-US}}</ref>
Together Obee and Jennerich won silver at the 2011 World Rowing Championships.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Patricia OBEE |url=https://worldrowing.com//athlete/patricia-obee |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref> The team competed in the lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics finishing in 7th place.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Ewing |first=Lori |date=June 28, 2016 |title=Canada announces 26-member Olympic rowing team |newspaper=Canadian Press |location=Toronto, Canada |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/rowing/canada-olympic-rowing-crews-announced-1.3655741 |access-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Olympic Rowing: Gold for Dutch, British and French at Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta |url=https://worldrowing.com/2016/08/12/olympic-rowing-gold-for-dutch-british-and-french-rio-olympic-rowing-regatta/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref>
In 2013, Jennerich briefly dropped out of rowing, before returning to compete with Obee the lightweight double scull.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Post-Rio transition ‘brutal’ for Canada’s Jennerich |url=https://worldrowing.com/2017/04/25/post-rio-transition-brutal-for-canada-jennerich/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref> The team went on to win silver at the 2014 World Championships.<ref name=":0" /> At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, Obee won a silver medal in the lightweight doubles, also with Lindsay Jennerich.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - The year that was … lightweight women’s double sculls |url=https://worldrowing.com/2016/11/21/the-year-that-was-lightweight-women-double-sculls/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref>
In June 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team,<ref>{{cite news |last=Ewing |first=Lori |date=28 June 2016 |title=Canada announces 26-member Olympic rowing team |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/rowing/canada-olympic-rowing-crews-announced-1.3655741 |newspaper=Canadian Press |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |access-date=28 June 2016 }}</ref> and she won a silver medal in lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics. <ref>{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Olympic Rowing: Gold for Dutch, British and French at Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta |url=https://worldrowing.com/2016/08/12/olympic-rowing-gold-for-dutch-british-and-french-rio-olympic-rowing-regatta/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}</ref> After the Olympics, she became a university rowing coach.<ref name=":4" />
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{FISA|12995}}
{{World champions – Lightweight women's double sculls}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jennerich, Lindsay}} Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian female rowers Category:Rowers from Victoria, British Columbia Category:Sportswomen from British Columbia Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic rowers for Canada Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Canada Category:Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic silver medalists for Canada Category:Olympic medalists in rowing Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen