Sally Ninham

Sally Ninham is an Australian historian and a former national representative rower. As a lightweight rower she was a national champion and won a silver medal at the 1990 World Rowing Championships.

Sally Ninham
Personal information
Full nameSally Edna Ninham
Nickname(s)Sal
NationalityAustralian
Born1969 (age 53–54)
Maryland, USA
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportRowing
ClubANU Boat Club
Melbourne University Boat Club
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 1990 Lake Barrington LW4-

Early life and education

Ninham was born in 1969 in the United States[1] and grew up in Cook, Australian Capital Territory with her three brothers. She attended Cook Primary School, Campbell High School and Hawker College.[1]

Ninham studied at the Australian National University and La Trobe University, in Germany at the University of Hamburg and she undertook some studies at the University of California Berkeley. She obtained a BA (Hons) and a PhD.[1][2]

Career

Club and state rowing

Ninham's senior club rowing was from the Australian National University Boat Club and the Melbourne University Boat Club. She won a New South Wales state championship title in 1989 in a lightweight coxless four.[3]

She contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships in the lightweight pair and the lightweight coxless four on a number of occasions. In 1989 in ANU colours she placed second in the pair and in the four.[4] In 1990, racing for MUBC she placed fifth in the pair and fourth in the four.[5]

Ninham's sole state representation for Victoria came in 1990 when she was selected in the bow seat of the lightweight coxless four which contested and won the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.[6]

International representative rowing

Ninham made her Australian representative debut in 1989 in the lightweight coxless four. They raced at the Lucerne International Regatta to a fourth place[3] and then at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled they again finished fourth.[7] The following year at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington, Ninham held the three seat in the women's lightweight four which won the silver medal.[8] That same crew also raced that year at the 1990 Canadian Henley Regatta and won the lightweight coxless four title.[3]

Scholar and author

An independent scholar and author affiliated with Melbourne's La Trobe University, her first published work was A Cohort of Pioneers, a study on Australia's growing intellectual, social, and research cultures since World War II. Her second book Ten African Cardinals tracked conversations with ten of the fourteen African cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.[9][10] The research for this she did in Africa, with her son.

Business

Ninham owns a ceremic studio, that runs classes.

Personal life

Ninham is married to James Peters, a national Australian champion lightweight rower (1981 coxless four),[11] who also coached at the Australian national level.[8] They have five children.[3]

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae : Sally Ninham". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. "About Me". Sally Ninham. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. Ninham profile at Guerin Foster
  4. 1989 Austn C'ships
  5. 1990 Austn C'ships
  6. 1990 Interstate Regatta
  7. 1989 World C'ships.
  8. 1990 World C'ships
  9. "Sally Ninham". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  10. "Dr. Sally Ninham BA Hons | PhD". Sally Ninham. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  11. 1981 Austn C'ships
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