Gold Medal Olympian Lisa Roman, a member of Team Canada's Women's Eight Rowing team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, charmed and delighted Aldergrove Rotary members with her 50-minute address describing her eleven year run up to the Gold Medal podium moment at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. No stranger to competition, Lisa, who stands just under six feet tall has always had to overcome the fact that she was relatively short to be a rower. But she hasn’t let that deter her from her Olympic dream that was sparked when she made the national U23 team and won gold with the eight at the 2011 U23 World Championships.
Roman began competing internationally as a senior in 2013 and has since stood on five world championship podiums with the eight. It started with a bronze medal in 2013, followed by silver in 2014, and then another bronze in 2015. Until a fourth- place finish at the 2016 regatta in Lucerne, she had also reached the podium at every World Cup event at which she had competed with the eight.
In her Olympic debut at Rio 2016, Roman and the eight advanced to the A final, finishing fifth. In 2017 and 2018, she won world championship silver with the eight. At the 2019 World Rowing Championships, Roman and the eight finished fourth, qualifying the boat for Tokyo 2020.
For more information: https://olympic.ca/team-canada/lisa-roman