Hamish Parry, Jacinta Edmunds and Caitlin Cronin were closing in on the Tokyo Olympic Games

Hamish Parry’s quest for a treasured Olympic Games berth alongside fellow Queenslanders Jacinta Edmundsand Caitlin Cronin was alive after Rowing Australia selected him to take part in the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in May.

Hamish Parry’s quest for a treasured Olympic Games berth alongside fellow Queenslanders Jacinta Edmunds and Caitlin Cronin was alive after Rowing Australia selected him to take part in the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in May.

Parry will need to qualify via the qualification regatta while Cronin (women’s sculling squad) and Edmunds (women’s sweep squad) were in boats that have already qualified for the Games.

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Parry, from the Toowong Rowing Club, will team with Sean Murphy compete in Lucerne, Switzerland, May 17-19.

Parry’s bid to become an Olympian was checked late last year when his long-time partner Leon Chambers opted out of the Olympic campaign.

Jacinta Edmunds in action. PHOTO: Tristan Shipsides

Parry, a St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace old boy. had won a 2019 World Cup bronze medal alongside Chambers, Australia’s first Lightweight Men’s Double Scull medal since 2014.

The pair needed a top seven finish at last year’s world championship but finished eighth, directing them to the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta

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St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School alumni Edmunds, whose sister Maddie and father Ian are Olympians, was in the Rowing Eight which qualified the boat for the Tokyo Games last year

Now the Commercial Rowing Club junior has to make sure she remains a member of the final team to be named.

“We have certainly identified athletes for each boat class that Australia has qualified or hopes to qualify for Tokyo, however we wish to refine our performances in the lead up to these World Rowing events before announcing these crews publicly,” said Rowing Australia Performance Director, Bernard Savage.

Caitlin Cronin, at the front, in the women’s quadruple scull team competing at 2017 World Rowing Championships. Picture Courtesy of Rowing Australia

Both Edmunds and Cronin, an All Hallows’ School alumni who has come through the University of Queensland Boat Club system, will compete at World Rowing Cups 2 and 3 in May, although Rowing Australia was monitoring the Novel Coronavirus situation.

“We are of course monitoring the situation both in Europe and closer to home in relation to the Novel Coronavirus,’’ Savage said.

“We are in regular contact with FISA (the governing body for World Rowing), the AIS and the Australian Government as to whether these events are able to take place or if we are able to travel to them based on the current situation surrounding travel and the Novel Coronavirus.

“The health and wellbeing of our athletes is paramount, and we will continue to support our athletes as they train, with the hope that we will be able to compete, in May, overseas in Italy and Switzerland.”