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Rosalyn "Ros" Lawrence (born 12 June 1989) is an Australian slalom canoeist who has won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships.

At the senior World Championship level Lawrence has won two golds (C1 team: 2013, 2015), a silver (C1 team: 2017) and a bronze (K1 team: 2017). She won the overall World Cup title in the C1 category three times (2009, 2011 and 2012), and was U23 Junior World Champion in 2012. 

Lawrence has spent the last two Australian summers balancing her training with running and coaching the local junior program in Western Sydney. She spends 3-5 months each year training and competing in Europe and has recently returned from the 2018 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro where she finished 7th in the Women's C1 event.

Lawrence won the Sickline Extreme race in 2012[5] and the Wildwater World Championship in C1W in 2011. She competes in Australian extreme kayaking races when she isn't busy with slalom racing.

Her two older sisters have also competed in canoe slalom. Jacqueline Lachmann (née Lawrence) is an Olympic silver medalist (2008 Beijing Olympic Games) and Katrina is the overall world cup champion in K1 from 2008.
Lawrence was born on 12 June 1989 in Lismore, NSW, Australia and grew up in Old Bonalbo, a small country town in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. She now lives in the lower Blue Mountains, NSW.

Lawrence completed her HSC in 2006 at Bonalbo Central School and went on to complete a Bachelor of International and Global Studies at the University of Sydney, where she was a scholarship holder in the Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness Elite Athlete Program.