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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 May 1991 (age 33) | |||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Oxford | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wallingford RC | |||||||||||||||||
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Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott (born 16 May 1991) [1] is an English rower, who won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain rowing squad at the 2016 World Rowing Championships, in the Women's Quad sculls event. [2]
Piggott comes from Bedford. She is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, [3] and a member of Wallingford Rowing Club. [4] [1]
She won her first gold at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2013. [1] She was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where she won a silver medal as part of the lightweight quadruple sculls with Brianna Stubbs, Ruth Walczak and Emily Craig. [5] [6]
At the 2016 championships in Rotterdam, her women's lightweight quadruple sculls crew of Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig and Imogen Walsh fought off competition from Germany and China, to win gold and finish with a time of 7:10:60 in the final. [7]
Piggott represented Great Britain at the first stage of the 2018 World Rowing Cup in Belgrade, and at the second stage of the event in Ottensheim. [8]
Piggott is also a double blue, twice winner of the Oxford - Cambridge Womens Boat Race for Oxford.
Frances Houghton MBE is a 5 time Olympic rower (2000–2016), 4 times World Champion and 3 times Olympic Silver medallist.
Tracy Stuart Began Rowing in 2000 at the age of 25 by enrolling in the learn to row program, while attending the University of Calgary. Since then, Tracy has been to the starting line 12 times and brought home 9 medals, including a Bronze in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold in the 2010 World Rowing Championships.
Michelle Denise Darvill is a retired rower. Born in Toronto, she first competed for Canada, but later change allegiance to Germany. She was world champion in three different lightweight boat classes, once for Canada and twice for Germany, and represented Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Since 2009, she has been coaching the Canadian under 23 women's team.
Caryn Davies is an American rower. She is the winner of the 2023 Thomas Keller Medal, the most prestigious international award in the sport of rowing, and the only American to have ever won this award. She won gold medals as the stroke seat of the U.S. women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. In April 2015 Davies stroked Oxford University to victory in the first ever women's Oxford/Cambridge boat race held on the same stretch of the river Thames in London where the men's Oxford/Cambridge race has been held since 1829. She was the most highly decorated Olympian to take part in either [men's or women's] race. In 2012 Davies was ranked number 4 in the world by the International Rowing Federation. At the 2004 Olympic Games she won a silver medal in the women's eight. Davies has won more Olympic medals than any other U.S. oarswoman. The 2008 U.S. women's eight, of which she was a part, was named FISA crew of the year. Davies is from Ithaca, New York, where she graduated from Ithaca High School, and rowed with the Cascadilla Boat Club. Davies was on the Radcliffe College (Harvard) Crew Team and was a member on Radcliffe's 2003 NCAA champion Varsity 8, and overall team champion. In 2013, she was a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she stroked the college men's eight to a victory in both Torpids and the Oxford University Summer Eights races. In 2013–14 Davies took up Polynesian outrigger canoeing in Hawaii, winning the State novice championship and placing 4th in the long-distance race na-wahine-o-ke-kai with her team from the Outrigger Canoe Club. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame and in 2022 into the Harvard University Athletics Hall of Fame.
Beth Rodford is a British rower. Rodford participated in two Olympic games, 2008 Summer in Beijing and 2012 Summer in London. At Beijing, she finished in fifth place in the Women's Eight. In 2012 at London, she finished in sixth position in the quadruple sculls. She announced her retirement from international rowing on 16 December 2015.
Katherine Sarah Copeland MBE is a retired British Olympic Gold Medal winning rower.
Imogen Walsh is a British rower, a former World and European Champion in Lightweight Women's Single Scull.
Mirte Kraaijkamp is a Dutch rower.
Ursula Grobler is a South African competitive rower who resides in Pretoria, South Africa.
Brianna Stubbs is an elite British rower and research scientist who won two gold medals for Great Britain at the 2013 U23 and 2016 World Rowing Championships. She was the youngest person to row across the English Channel when she completed the feat in 2004, at the age of 12. Her research is focussed on the metabolism of ketone drinks, and has been based at Oxford University. In 2014, she was included in the BBC's 100 Women.
Emily Craig is a British lightweight Olympic champion and three-time world champion rower.
Angela Herron is a retired American lightweight rower. She won a gold medal at the 1984 World Rowing Championships in Montreal, Canada, with the lightweight women's eight; this was the only year that this boat class competed at World Rowing Championships. At the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, she won a bronze medal in the lightweight women's single scull. At the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen, she became world champion in the lightweight women's four. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna, she came fourth in the lightweight women's single scull.
The women's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota took place in Nathan Benderson Park.
The women's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2016 World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam took place at the Willem-Alexander Baan.
Angeliki Gremou is a Greek rower. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the 1998 World Rowing Championships winning a bronze medal in the lightweight women's quadruple sculls and the 2003 World Rowing Championships also winning a bronze medal in the lightweight women's double sculls alongside Elpida Grigoriadou.
The women's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.
The women's lightweight quadruple sculls competition at the 2019 World Rowing Championships took place at the Linz-Ottensheim regatta venue.
Imogen Daisy Grant is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.
Ruth Walczak is a British rower.
Michelle Sechser is an American rower. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's lightweight double sculls event.
