Lightweight double sculls representative
Analicia Ramirez wears her hair pulled back and
has a manner of serious conviction. She went
hunting for a sport and found rowing. “I was
a very active girl and loved all sports,” says
Ramirez. “I tried gymnastics, tennis, taekwondo
and swimming and none were right for me. I
finally found rowing and soon I made good
results. I then coxed because the coach wanted
me to, but I didn’t like it.”
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Ramirez then had a breakthrough. “In 2004 I won
the junior double at the Canadian Henley, then in
2005 at the US national champs I was third in the
senior ‘b’ double and first in the senior ‘b’ pair.”
These results got Ramirez fired up to row more.
She had found her sport. Ramirez has now notched
up five years on the Mexican team, a win this year
at Italy’s Paolo D’Aloja Regatta, and last year at
the Central American and Caribbean Games,
Ramirez got the highest number of medals of
all the participants – gold in the women’s single,
women’s quad and lightweight women’s double.
Currently Ramirez is rowing in the lightweight
double with her partner of three years, Gabriela
Huerta Trillo.
Gabriela Huerta Trillo (b) and
Analicia Ramirez (s) from
Mexico prepare to race in the
lightweight women’s double
sculls repechage at the 2011
Samsung World Rowing Cup
in Hamburg (GER).
Both Ramirez and Loliger live in Mexico City
which has the majority of the nation’s rowers and
Loliger estimates that there are about 2,000 >
Issue 17 – August 2011
