The selection of the members of this crew was clear as it comprised the two fastest pairs and the fastest four in domestic racing. Their coach was the experienced Victorian, David Palfreyman. The coxless four performed as well as any other Australian crew at the Olympic regatta and was clearly the best western nation crew at that time. The coxed four including Pam Westendorf in the three seat rowed to a fifth placing. Westendorf rowed on after the Olympics and at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich she raced a coxless pair with Jacqueline Marshall to overall eight place. They stayed together as a pair into 1982 still coached by Palfreyman and again raced at World Championships, this time to ninth place. After a number of years out of national crews, Westendorf was back in the Australian coxless four for her final representative appearance at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington. She won her first and only World Championship medal – a silver. Coach Post-competitive rowing Westendorf has had a long coaching career at school, club and state level. She coached the 1994 Victorian state women's coxless four and the Victorian state women's youth eight in 1995. In 1994 she coached an Australian women's U23 coxless four who contested the Trans-Tasman series. She has coached school crews at both Geelong College and at Geelong Grammar School. References External links 1959 births Australian female rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Living people Olympic rowers of Australia Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics 20th-century Australian women