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Emma Advances - By Room 1
Emma Twigg, serial olympian, advanced to the semi finals with a convincing win in the Quarter finals last Sunday in tokyo.
This is Emma’s fourth olympics and her fourth time advancing to the Semi finals. In Rio she placed fourth by less than a second and she has returned reinvigorated by the culture in the NZ team and she says ‘it’s an honour wearing the Silver Fern’. She also has had expert coaching tips from her nephew who said she needs to train harder. After this advice she pushed herself to row over 26km daily which she told him from Tokyo.
She received her secondary education at Napier Girls' High School and was head prefect in her final year.[4]
Twigg gained a Bachelor of Communications from University of Waikato while a professional rower. She took 2015 off from rowing and completed a FIFA Master in Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport
She retired from rowing after the 2016 Summer Olympics and was employed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Switzerland for two years. While working at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, the idea formed to start rowing again with a view of attending the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Wardell and another rower in April 2018 to cycle from Switzerland towards Singapore for four months, but changed her mind after six weeks and flew home instead to restart training and be with her new partner
Twigg was born in 1987 in Napier, New Zealand.
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She is a single sculler and has been a world champion in the last 10 years. ____
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