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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Lola Anderson (born 16 April 1998) is a world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning British rower. [1] She was inspired to take up the sport as a teenager while watching Great Britain win four rowing golds at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, encouraged by her father, Don, a former university rower. [2]
Anderson is from Richmond, Greater London and attended Surbiton High School. She graduated with a degree in English literature from Newcastle University. [3]
Anderson won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships. [4] This was followed by a bronze medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships.
In 2022, Anderson won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Leander Club. [5]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the Quadruple sculls with Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw. [6]
She won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. [7]
She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing. [8]
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.
Alan W Campbell is a British sculler.
Annabel Morwenna Vernon is a retired British rower.
Deborah Kirsty Bruwer is an English rower, noteworthy for winning silver medals in the quadruple sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.
Frances Houghton MBE is a 5 time Olympic rower (2000–2016), 4 times World Champion and 3 times Olympic Silver medallist.
Graeme Edward Thomas is a British rower.
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.
Polly Swann is a British rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. She is a former World and European champion in the women's coxless pairs, having won the 2013 World Rowing Championships at Chungju in Korea, and the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade, Serbia with her partner Helen Glover. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the women's eight.
Victoria Meyer-Laker is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team.
Henry Fieldman is a British rowing coxswain. He has been twice a world champion and is a two-time Olympic medalist.
Thomas Ford is a British national representative rower. He is an Olympic and two-time world champion in the men's eight event.
James Rudkin is a British national representative rower. He is an Olympic and two-time world champion.
Jacob Dawson is a rower representing Great Britain. He is an Olympic and world champion with both those titles won in the men's eight event.
Sholto Carnegie is a British representative rower. He is an Olympic and a two-time world champion in the Great Britain men's eight.
Imogen Daisy Grant is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.
Charles Richard Jeremy Elwes is a British national representative rower. He is an Olympic and two-time world champion.
Hannah Elizabeth Scott is a rower from Coleraine, Northern Ireland. She has won Olympic and world championship gold medals representing Great Britain.
Thomas William Kenelm Digby is a British national representative rower. He is an Olympic and two-time world champion.
Georgina Megan Brayshaw 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.
Lauren Henry is an Olympic gold medallist and world champion British rower.
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