 Wilde at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rebecca Wilde | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 December 1997 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Queen's College, Taunton University of Bath | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Leander Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Wilde (born 31 December 1997) is a British rower. She won a bronze in double sculls at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
The daughter of P.E. teachers she has a Welsh mother and English father. Formerly a swimmer, she was first inspired to take up rowing after watching the 2012 London Olympics, eventually switching sports in 2017. [2] She represented the South of England in swimming at the London Youth Olympics in 2012. [3] She attended Queens College, Taunton. [4] [5]
She is a member of Leander Club, [6] and was formerly part of British Rowing's Performance Development Academy (PDA), based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. [7]
In November 2023 she had to undergo surgery for compartment syndrome in her forearms, and missed part of the rowing season. [8] Alongside Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne she qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the double sculls at the World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. [9]
In June 2024, she was confirmed in the British squad for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. [10] On 1 August 2024 Wilde and Hodgkins-Byrne won a bronze medal in the double sculls finishing behind gold medallists New Zealand and silver medallists Romania. [11]
She moved to the quadruple sculls at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, winning gold. [12] [13]
She studied Sport and Social Science at the University of Bath. [14]
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