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| Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 February 1996 Cambridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Lightweight double sculls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.
Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College Cambridge. [1]
Grant won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls [2] and the following year she won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig. [3]
In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy. [4]
With the Cambridge squad, she won the 2022 Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race.
At the 2022 World Cup III regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, she won gold and set a new world's best time in women's lightweight singles of 7:23.36. [5]
She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships [6] and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. [7]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig. [8]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics Grant and Emily Craig won the gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls, the final time that the event was held at the Olympic Games. [9]
Grant has a degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Medicine, and master's degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Cambridge. [10] She started a career as a medical doctor in August 2024. [11]
Amber Jae Halliday is a former rower and cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia. She is an Australian national champion, a dual Olympian and a three-time world-champion in lightweight rowing. She rowed for South Australia on nine occasions for six victories in Interstate Regattas and won numerous Australian titles at the Australian National Championships.
Mark John Hunter MBE is a retired British rower.
Storm William Uru is a New Zealand rower. He is from Ngāi Tahu tribe.
Lindsay Jennerich is a Canadian rower. A world champion in the lightweight double sculls with Tracy Cameron, she competed in the lightweight double sculls at both the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2016 with Patricia Obee.
Philippa June Baker, now known by her married name Philippa Baker-Hogan, is a former New Zealand rower and politician. She was the first New Zealand woman to win a gold medal at World Rowing Championships and won gold at world championships on two more occasions. She has twice represented New Zealand at the Olympics. She has received numerous awards for her rowing success and in 2012, she and fellow double sculler Brenda Lawson were inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. A trained radiographer, she manages her husband's medical practice. She has been a Whanganui District Health Board and Whanganui District Council member since 2004 and 2006, respectively, and was a mayoral candidate in 2010. She is a member of the New Zealand Labour Party.
Christina Giazitzidou is a Greek rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in the Women's lightweight double sculls.
Andrea Dennis is a former British rower. She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where she won a gold medal as part of the lightweight quad sculls with Stephanie Cullen, Imogen Walsh and Kathryn Twyman.
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.
Aikaterini "Katerina" Nikolaidou is a Greek rower. Nikolaidou represented Greece, along with Sofia Asoumanaki at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, finishing in the 4th place. She also won a silver medal, in the lightweight single sculls at the 2013 World Rowing Championships and 2014 World Rowing Championships, and in the lightweight double sculls along with Sofia Asoumanaki at the 2015 World Rowing Championships. She won the gold medal in the lightweight single sculls at the 2014 European Champion and 2013 European Champion. She won the gold medal in the single sculls, at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, and at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin.
Paul O'Donovan is an Irish lightweight rower. He is a double Olympic champion in the lightweight double sculls, where he set a world's best time for that event, and a seven-time world champion in single and double sculls.
Zoe McBride is a former New Zealand rower. She is a double world champion in the women's lightweight single scull. She is only the second New Zealand rower to win a double national championship in both the lightweight and premier single sculls.
Sophie MacKenzie is a New Zealand Olympic rower and, together with Julia Edward, double world champion in lightweight double sculls.
Ilse Paulis is a Dutch representative rower. She is a world champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and has set three world's best times, two of which are standing world records as of 2021. She is racing the lightweight women's double scull with Marieke Keijser at Tokyo 2021.
Gianina Elena van Groningen is a Romanian rower. She is twice world champion in the women's lightweight double sculls event winning back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018 for Romania. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal paired with Ionela Cozmiuc.
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 Elizabeth Craig is a British lightweight Olympic champion and three-time world champion rower.
Jackie Kiddle is a rower from New Zealand. She participated in Woman's rowing sport and represented New Zealand in several International Championships(including U23).
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.
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Since 1984 and, after 1996 in non-Olympic years, this boat class has been a World Championships event; see World champions – Lightweight women's double sculls |
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