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Georgina Megan Brayshaw (born 14 October 1993) is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. She is a double European champion, World champion and Olympic gold medallist. [1]
At the age of 15, Georgina was involved in a serious horse-riding accident [2] that left her in a coma for nine days and resulted in paralysis on her left side. The accident occurred while she was galloping through a field, and she has no memory of the incident itself. Despite the severity of her injuries, which required her to relearn how to use the left side of her body, Georgina regained most bodily functions after a year and fueled her characteristic resilient attitude. "I just love proving people wrong" [3] has since become her catchphrase and went on to drive her athletic aspirations.
Originally from Leeds, Brayshaw's introduction to rowing came during her second year at the University of Northampton. Despite not initially making the cut for the GB Start project, she continued to pursue the sport, joining Leeds Rowing Club after graduation and eventually securing a place in the GB Start Olympic Pathway Programme in 2014. Georgina quickly showed an aptitude for the sport and began climbing the ranks, [4] moving to Leander Club [5] in 2017, and joining the British Rowing Women's Squad [6] in 2020.
Brayshaw won her first major gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships [7] in Munich, Germany.
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the Stroke (position) seat of the Quadruple sculls with Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott and Lola Anderson. [8] The same crew continued to win Gold's with the same crew for the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Szeged, Hungary and 2024 World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland.
At the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, Georgina and her team won Great Britain’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls boat class. [1]
In February 2023, Brayshaw won the openweight women's single (W1X) category of GB Rowing open senior trials [9] in Boston Lincolnshire. As a result she was ranked no.1 senior women's team at this time.
Georgina currently holds the world record for the 5 km distance on the RP3 rowing machine [10] (Female, Open Category, Open Weight)
In April 2024, Brayshaw was named Great Britain Rowing Team Women's Olympic Athlete of the Year [11]
Dame Katherine Jane Grainger is a Scottish former rower and current Chair of UK Sport. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion for Great Britain. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020 and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
Annabel Morwenna Vernon is a retired British rower.
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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.
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Helen Rachel Mary Backshall is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. Ranked the number 1 female rower in the world in 2015–16, she is a two-time Olympic champion, triple World champion, quintuple World Cup champion and quintuple European champion. She and her partner Heather Stanning were the World, Olympic, World Cup and European record holders, plus the Olympic, World and European champions in the women's coxless pairs. She has also been a British champion in both women's fours and quadruple sculls.
Heather Mary Stanning OBE is a retired British professional rower. As a member of the Great Britain rowing team, she is a double Olympic champion, double World champion, quadruple World Cup champion and double European champion. She has also been a British champion in both women's fours and quad sculls.
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