Name Karsten Forsterling Role Rower | Height 1.90 m Weight 88 kg | |
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Education Melbourne Grammar School, Monash University Olympic medals Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's quadruple sculls Similar People Daniel Noonan, James McRae, Chris Morgan, Lauritz Schoof, Phillipp Wende | ||
Guide to Sculling with Team Australia | Gillette World Sport
Karsten Forsterling (born 21 January 1980) is an Australian rower. He is a former world champion, a dual Olympian and Olympic medal winner.
Contents
- Guide to Sculling with Team Australia Gillette World Sport
- Education
- Club and state rowing
- International rowing career
- References
Education
Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Forsterling was schooled at St Vincent's Primary in the ACT and took up rowing in high school at the Melbourne Grammar School.
He graduated from Monash University in Melbourne with a B.Engineering in 2001, and currently works for the multinational consulting firm AECOM.
Club and state rowing
Forsterling rows from the Melbourne University Boat Club with whom he has had a long association.
On eleven occasions during the fifteen-year period from 2001 to 2015 Forsterling was seated in the Victorian Men's VIII who contested the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships. In those crews Fosterling saw six King's Cup victories and five times placed second. In 2011 and 2016 he was also Victoria's selectee to contest the interstate men's Single scull - the President's Cup. He placed second on both occasions.
International rowing career
At the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Karapiro he finished 3rd in the men's quadruple sculls (M4x) event, in a crew with David Crawshay, James McRae, and Daniel Noonan.
At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in an upset, Forsterling rowing in the Australian men's quad defeated the German crew to take gold. Following a costly mistake in the German boat, the Australian crew took the lead in the final metres and won the race by 0.25secs.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Forsterling won bronze in the Men's quadruple scull in a time of 5:45.22 in a crew with Chris Morgan, James McRae and Daniel Noonan.
At the 2015 World Rowing Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, Aiguebelette in France he finished 2nd in the men's quadruple sculls (M4x) event, rowing with David Crawshay, Cameron Girdlestone and David Watts.
In 2016 along with James McRae, Cameron Girdlestone and Alexander Belonogoff, Forsterling won the silver medal in the Australian quad at the Rio 2016 Olympics.