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Zsuzsanna "Susan" Francia (Hungarian: Francia Zsuzsanna; born November 8, 1982) is a Hungarian-American two-time Olympic gold medalist rower.
Susan Francia is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, part of the successful USA women’s eight rowing crews at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Her mother, Katalin Karikó, was there for each of Francia’s accomplishments. She took pictures and yelled for her daughter as any proud mother would.
Susan is an internationally recognized rower, coach, and motivational speaker with a passion for writing and helping others. Despite her start as an uncoordinated basketball player, she discovered the sport of rowing at the University of Pennsylvania and immediately fell in love with it.
My story. After seeing recruiting flyers for the rowing team, I emailed the coach and began to row my sophomore year. Something clicked with rowing. For the first time I didn’t just have ‘potential,’ I was actually excelling!
Jun 28, 2021 · Olympic rower Susan Francia and her mother, Katalin Kariko, one of the pioneering scientists behind the coronavirus vaccines, fought hard to pursue their versions of the American dream.
Olympic rowing champion Susan Francia and her Nobel Prize-winning scientist mother Katalin Karikó on perseverance and supporting each other.
When Susan Francia won Olympic gold in rowing at Beijing 2008 for Team USA and repeated the feat London 2012, her mother, the biochemist Katalin Kariko, was cheering for her. Now, Dr. Kariko has won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
