Teesaan Koo | |
Nationality: | Australian |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1974 |
Country: | Australia |
Sport: | Rowing |
Teesaan Koo (born 12 December 1974) is an Australian representative rowing coxswain. He has represented at World Championships spanning a twenty-nine year period from 1994 to 2023.
Over a long career Koo coxed at a number of senior clubs in Sydney and Melbourne including the Mosman Rowing Club and the Melbourne University Boat Club.[1]
In Mosman colours he won an Australian national championship in 1994 in the senior men's coxed pair[2] and a senior B men's eight title in 1995.
Koo's Australian representative debut was in 1994 when he steered the Australian men's coxed pair at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis to a tenth placing. The following year he again coxed Australia's M2+ at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland where they made the A final and finished fourth.
In 2022 Koo was selected in the Australian paralympic training squad to prepare for the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[3] At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, he coxed the Australian Mixed PR3 four. They made the A final and finished in fourth place.[4] At the 2023 World Rowing Championships, Koo and his crew finished fourth in the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four.[5]