Madeleine Edmunds

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Madeleine Edmunds (born 3 January 1992) is an Australian rower. She is a five-time national champion and competed for Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She grew up in Brisbane and rows for the Commercial Rowing Club. Her father, Ian Edmunds, won an Olympic bronze in 1984. Madeleine attended St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School.

Her state career began in 2008 when she was part of the Queensland youth eight that won the Bicentennial Cup. She also won with the youth eight in 2009, 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2018 she was selected six times in Queensland’s senior women's eight for the Queen’s Cup. In 2018 she won the Nell Slatter Trophy as Queensland’s interstate single sculls champion.

Nationally, she won the 2017 double scull title with Olympia Aldersey. In 2018 she was part of a composite Australian selection eight that won the women’s eight at the Australian Rowing Championships.

Internationally, Edmunds first represented Australia at the junior level in 2008 in Linz, finishing seventh in the coxless pair. In 2009 she won a silver medal in the quad scull at Brive-la-Gaillarde, and in 2010 placed fourth in the double scull at Racice. In 2011 she competed at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam, finishing ninth in single sculls. In 2012 at U23 Worlds in Trakai she won gold in the quad scull with Hall, Aldersey and Cooper.

The same crew continued into 2013, competing in World Cups and then at the World Championships in Chungju, where they were eliminated in the repechage. With lineup changes, they finished fourth at the 2014 Worlds and fifth at the 2015 Worlds. In 2016, the Olympic year, Edmunds and her crew won silver at two European World Rowing Cups before competing in the women’s quadruple sculls at Rio 2016, where they finished fifth in the repechage and narrowly missed the A final.

In 2017 Edmunds switched to the double scull with Aldersey and won a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida. In 2018 she raced the single scull at the World Cup II in Linz, finishing fifth, and was runner-up to Jeannine Gmelin in the Princess Royal Challenge Cup at Henley.