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Full name | Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Westminster, London, England | 1 October 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Reading | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne (born 1 October 1994) is a British rower. She won a gold medal in the double scull at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships. [1] 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. [2]
She competed for Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th in the women's quadruple sculls event. [3]
In 2020 she won her second Wingfield Sculls, her previous win was in 2015. [4] In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the quadruple sculls in Varese, Italy. [5]
In June 2024, she was confirmed in the British squad for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. [6] On 1 August 2024 Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde won a bronze medal in the double sculls finishing behind gold medallists New Zealand and silver medallists Romania. [7]
Hodgkins-Byrne grew up in Hereford, where she began training as a teenager. She graduated from the University of Reading. [8]
Hodgkins-Byrne has a son. [9]
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