 Craig at the World Championships in 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 November 1992 Pembury, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Lightweight double sculls, Lightweight quadruple sculls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emily Craig (born 30 November 1992) is a British lightweight three-time world champion rower.
Craig 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 Eleanor Piggott. [1]
At the 2016 World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam, Craig was part of the gold medal-winning team in the women's lightweight quadruple sculls, along with Brianna Stubbs, Eleanor Piggott and Imogen Walsh. [2] [3] She won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria as part of the lightweight double sculls with Imogen Grant. [4]
In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy. [5]
She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships [6] and the 2022 World Rowing Championships, then retained her titles at the 2023 European Rowing Championships and the 2023 World Rowing Championships. [7]
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Jérémie Azou is a French former rower. He is an Olympic, World, and European champion in the men's lightweight double sculls.
Hannah Every-Hall is an Australian former rower, a national champion, World Champion and Olympian.
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Katherine Sarah Copeland MBE is a retired British Olympic Gold Medal winning rower.
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Imogen Walsh is a British rower, a former World and European Champion in Lightweight Women's Single Scull.
Paul O'Donovan is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Olympic gold medallist in lightweight double sculls where he set a new world's best time for that event and is a five-time world champion in single and double sculls.
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Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne is a British rower. She won a gold medal in the double scull at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the quadruple sculls with Bethany Bryan, Jessica Leyden and Holly Nixon.
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Zhou Weijuan is a Chinese lightweight rower.
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Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott 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.
Imogen Daisy Grant is a British lightweight world champion rower.
Ruth Walczak is a British rower.
