EMMA Fessey from Brewarrina has joined Jack Hargreaves from Nyngan and Jack O'Brien from Walgett to win medals in the World Cup rowing on the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sunday.

The three athletes from western NSW were part of a successful Australian World Cup campaign in Switzerland which resulted in six medals from the 12 crews racing across the Regatta. 

The highlight was the gold medal win by Women’s Eight, which included Fesse. The Australian Men's Four, including Hargreaves and O'Brien, won silver behind Great Britain.

It was a reversal of the results the week prior at Henley where the Women's Eight came second and the Men's Four won.

Emma Fessey was raised on a cattle and sheep property north of Brewarrina. Her parents Ed and Jill, travelled to the Henley on Thames regatta but were not in Lucerne to see the gold medal win.

Emma learned to row in secondary school when she boarded at Loretto Normanhurst in Sydney.

She made her Australian representative debut to the Australian senior squad and went straight into the stroke seat of the senior women's eight when they started their 2018 international campaign with a bronze medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria, and later at the 2018 championships in Plovdiv winning the bronze medal.

Rowing Australia Performance Director Paul Thompson MBE said last the World Cup last weekend was a very competitive regatta for Australia.

"The eights had fantastic rows, especially the women getting Gold, a great result for both crews. The Men’s Four was obviously wanting a little more – you have two sorts of Silver medals here.

From now until the World Championships, for all crews, it’s about converting them to Gold. “

Emma Fessey with Brewarrina-based ground crew. PHOTO SUPPLIED.

The Women’s Eight of Eleanor Price, Bronwyn Cox, Paige Barr, Jacqui Swick, Ella Bramwell, Olympian Giorgia Patten, Olympian Georgina Rowe, Emma Fessey, and cox Talia Barnet-Hepples had conviction from the starting green light through to the line.

Fessey said that the success of the crew is due to them being, “fresh, flexible and willing to learn at every opportunity.”

"Just believe in yourself. That's all you can do. Ride out the Good days and put your shoulder into the hard days and keep going," she said.

 “We came out and executed a really good start which has been a strength of ours, so our main focus was to nail the race rhythm from 750 to 1500m which we know we are capable of. It’s exactly what we did and allowed us to move up through the field and hold off Canada and Romania.

“A big motto of our Women’s Training group is, ‘any person, anytime, anywhere’, so adapting at any point and keeping positive spirits.”

The Men’s Four of Jack O’Brien, Hargreaves Spencer Turrin and Alex Purnell led the way in the showdown of the highly competitive boat class. While the Aussies led through the 1500m mark, the old rivals from Britain found a new gear and rowed through to take the win. Then it was the fight for the Silver against Romania, our Four held on for a photo-finish Silver medal.

 “We got out reasonably well, but probably didn’t find the sweetest rhythm that we needed – it was effective, but inefficient. We just had nowhere to go at the end and were just hanging on in the last 100m – I think we did well to hang on to second. The GB crew rowed a really good race, so well done to them," Spencer Purnell said.