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Southland teenager Shakira Mirfin is in the New Zealand women's under-21 rowing team, but her former coach believes she could go further and become an Olympian.
Mirfin teamed up with Sarah Stewart, Eilish McLeod and Elizabeth Reid to claim silver in the senior quad earlier on Saturday. Stewart and Mirfin were also third in the Senior double to provide a trifecta of medals for Mirfin. After winning the intermediate single two seasons ago, Reid ably moved up a level with a silver medal in the women’s Club single. Invercargill Rowing Club’s novice women backed up the progression system in the club, with Stacey Dennison, Laura Dennis, Maddison Booth and Caitlin Te Tai taking silver in the women’s novice coxed quad, and Dennison and Dennis a bronze in the novice double ahead of Te Tai and Booth in fourth.