Paige Barr

Paige Barr (born 31 May 2001) is an Australian representative sweep-oar rower. She has represented Australia at senior World Championships and won medals at World Rowing Cups at senior and underage World Championships.

Club and state rowing
Barr was raised in Bairnsdale, Victoria and attended Gippsland Grammar School where she took up rowing. Her senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club (MERCS)  in Melbourne.

Barr first made state selection for Victoria in the 2021 women's U21 youth eight and followed this up with selection in the 2022 women's eight which contested and came 1st in the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She raced in another Victorian senior women's eight to Queen's Cup victory in 2023.

Racing in Mercantile colours she won the Australian championship title in the U21 coxless four at the 2021 Australian Rowing Championships and in 2022 won silver in the national women's U23 single scull title.

International representative rowing
In March 2022 Barr was selected in the Australian training squad for the 2022 international season and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. She rowed in the three seat of the Australian women's eight at World Rowing Cups II and III taking bronze in Poznan and winning gold in Lucerne. She was then selected in Australia’s U23 coxless four to row at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Varese as well as Jacqueline Swick and Eliza Gaffney to then receive a bronze medal. At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, she was back in the Australian women's senior eight. They made the A final and finished in fifth place.

In March 2023 she was again selected in the Australian senior women's sweep-oar squad for the 2023 international season. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Barr raced in the Australian women's eight. They led from the start in the A final and won the gold medal. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, the eight was unchanged. In the final they led through to the 1500m mark but finished in third place for the bronze medal. For the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade Serbia, the Australian women's eight was unchanged overall although Barr moved into the bow seat. They finished 2nd in their heat and then needed to proceed through a repechage which they won. In the A final they led through the first 1000m on a low rating of 37/38 but were rowed through by the high-rating Romanians and a fast finishing USA eight. The Australians won the bronze medal, a 3rd place world ranking and Paris 2024 qualification.