Juliette Haigh
Juliette Haigh, also known as Juliette Drysdale, is a retired New Zealand rower. She was born on August 4, 1982, in Auckland.
She started rowing at Takapuna Grammar School and studied public relations at the University of Auckland, the University of Waikato, and Massey University.
Haigh competed mainly in the women’s pair. She rowed with Nicky Coles from 2004 to 2008, then teamed up with Rebecca Scown after a break. She won gold at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne in 2010 and gold at the World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro in 2010. Haigh and Scown won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
She retired from competitive rowing on December 2, 2012.
In 2013 she became engaged to fellow New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale. They had met in 2001 at Auckland’s West End Rowing Club. They married later that year and spent their honeymoon on Mahé in the Seychelles. The Drysdales have three children—a daughter born in October 2014, plus a son and another daughter. They live on a farm in Cambridge, New Zealand.
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