Teesaan Koo
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1974-12-12) 12 December 1974
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing

Teesaan Koo (born 12 December 1974) is an Australian representative rowing coxswain. He has represented at World Championships spanning a twenty-nine year period from 1994 to 2023.

Club and state rowing

Over a long career Koo coxed at a number of senior clubs in Sydney and Melbourne including the Mosman Rowing Club and the Melbourne University Boat Club.[1]

In Mosman colours he won an Australian national championship in 1994 in the senior men's coxed pair[2] and a senior B men's eight title in 1995.

International representative rowing

Koo's Australian representative debut was in 1994 when he steered the Australian men's coxed pair at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis to a tenth placing.[3] The following year he again coxed Australia's M2+ at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland where they made the A final and finished fourth.

In 2022 Koo was selected in the Australian paralympic training squad to prepare for the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[4] At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, he coxed the Australian Mixed PR3 four. They made the A final and finished in fourth place.[3] At the 2023 World Rowing Championships, Koo and his crew finished fourth in the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Koo at Rowing Australia
  2. ↑ 1994 Australian Championships
  3. 1 2 Koo at World Rowing
  4. ↑ 2022 Australian Team announcements
  5. ↑ "Silver lining for Morrison, McIntyre as Pair cast their eyes toward Paris". Rowing Australia. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.