Annabel Ritchie

Annabel Ritchie (born 20 July 1978) is retired rower from New Zealand.

Private life
Richie was born in New Zealand and attended Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch from 1994 to 1996. She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and graduated LLB. She lived in Queenstown where she worked as a lawyer in private practise.

Rowing career
Ritchie made the New Zealand U19 coxless four to compete at the 1996 World Rowing Junior Championships in Motherwell, Scotland, where the Jude Hamilton-coached crew won a bronze medal. At the 1998 World Rowing Championships in Cologne, Germany, she came seventh with the women's eight. At the next World Rowing Championships a year later in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, she came eights with the women's eight.

She attended the University of Washington, USA, and was part of the crew which won back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship titles. Her Husky team included Athens Olympic silver medallists and Beijing and London gold medallists Mary Murray (née Whipple) and Anna Cummins (née Mickelson) (USA), and Olympians Rika Geyser (South Africa) and Nicole Borges (Canada).

In 2012 to 2014, she was a rowing coach for the Wakatipu club in Queenstown.

References

Category:New Zealand female rowers
Category:1978 births
Category:Living people
Category:New Zealand lawyers
Category:People from Geraldine, New Zealand
Category:People educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Category:Washington Huskies women's rowers
Category:People from Queenstown, New Zealand
Category:21st-century New Zealand lawyers
Category:New Zealand women lawyers