Grace Luczak
Luczak in 2015 at Aiguebelette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | May 24, 1989 (1989-05-24) (age 35) Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grace Luczak (Fattal) (born May 24, 1989 in Royal Oak, Michigan)[1] is an American Olympic rower.
Life
Luczak was a member of the USA Olympic rowing team in 2016 and 2020. She has set two World Records, including the current record in the Women’s 8+ boat. She is a three-time World Champion and multiple World Cup medalist. She was recognized as one of the Top 10 Rowers in the world by World Rowing.[2]
She began rowing at Pioneer High School in Michigan. From there, she attended Stanford University, competing from 2008 through 2011. The women's rowing team won the NCAA Championship in 2009, with Luczak in the winning Varsity 8+.[2] In 2023, she was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.[3]
In 2015 Luczak, Kristine O'Brien, Adrienne Martelli and Grace Latz took the gold medal in the coxless four at the 2015 World Rowing Championships.[4]
In the 2016 Summer Olympics, Luczak and Felice Mueller, rowing in the Women's Coxless Pairs, finished fourth.[5] In the 2020 Summer Olympics, Luczak and three other rowers finished 7th in the Women's Coxless Four event.[6]
Luczak married Michael Fattal in 2022.[7]
References
- ^ "Grace Luczak". Team USA. Archived from the original on July 18, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ a b Grace Luczak at USRowing
- ^ "2023 Hall of Fame Class". Stanford Athletics. August 17, 2023.
- ^ "Luczak of US wins 3rd career gold at rowing worlds". SI.com. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
- ^ "Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ "2020 Olympic Team Roster". USRowing.
- ^ OlympicTalk (June 17, 2021). "U.S. Olympic team roster: Athletes qualified for Tokyo Games". OlympicTalk | NBC Sports. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
External links
- Grace Luczak at World Rowing
- Grace Luczak at Olympics.com
- Grace Luczak at Olympedia
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- 1989: (Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild)
- 1990: (Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu)
- 1991: (Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor)
- 1993: (Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua)
- 1994: (Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong)
- 1995: (Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis)
- 1996: (Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
- 1997: (Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker)
- 1998: (Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko)
- 1999: (Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2000: (Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2001: (Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts)
- 2002: (Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
- 2003: (Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
- 2004: (Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou)
- 2005: (Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
- 2006: (Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
- 2007: (Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
- 2008: (Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
- 2009: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2010: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2011: (Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
- 2013: (Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
- 2014: (Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams)
- 2015: (Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
- 2016: (Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
- 2017: (Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
- 2018: (Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
- 2019: (Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
- 2022: (Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
- 2023: (Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)
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