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Women's Crew Alumna, Three-Time All-American Gobbo '13 Set for 2016 Rio Olympics
6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Crew
PRINCETON, N.J. – Brown University women's crew alumna and three-time All-American Tessa Gobbo '13 has earned a spot in the United States women's eight boat and will compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, USRowing announced on Friday.
- 2016 USRowing Olympic Roster Announcement
- Olympic Camp Boat Nominations
- World Rowing: Olympic Info
- Rio Olympics Rowing Site
- Lagoa Stadium
- Brown Olympians through the Years
- Tessa Gobbo USRowing Bio
The US women's eight won its 10th straight global title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France in September to qualify as a boat for the Olympics. At the event, Gobbo helped the Americans clock in with a time of 6:05.65, finishing 2.87 seconds ahead of second-place New Zealand. The top five boats in the race automatically qualified for the Rio Olympics.
Gobbo, a native of Chesterfield, N.H., garnered an individual spot in the boat for the Olympics through a selection camp process. Most recently, Gobbo won gold with the eight at the 2016 World Rowing Cup II in May in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The US women's eight, one of the USA's top priority boats, has won gold at either the world championships or Olympics in each of the last 10 years, dating back to 2006.
A 2013 Brown graduate with a concentration in sociology, Gobbo won an NCAA Championship with the Bears in 2011 and captained the crew in 2013. As a senior, she earned Academic All-Ivy honors and won Brown's Marjorie Brown Smith Award, given to the Bears' most outstanding female varsity athlete.
Gobbo earned CRCA All-America and CRCA First Team All-Region accolades in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Over the course of her Brown career, she won an Ivy title, an Eastern Sprints team title, and won the Crash-B Indoor Rowing Championships in the Collegiate Women's bracket in 2012 and 2013.
On the international level, Gobbo won gold in the eight at the 2016 and 2015 World Rowing Cup II regattas, took silver in the four at the 2014 World Rowing Championships, and gained gold in the four at the 2013 World Rowing Championships.
The rowing events at the 2016 Olympics are slated to take place from August 6-13. The women's eight heats are tentatively scheduled for Monday, Aug. 8 with a repechage race on Wednesday, Aug. 10 and the final on Saturday, Aug. 13. Lagoa Stadium at Rodrigo de Freitas Lake will serve as the competition site.
