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Helen Rachel Mary Backshall (née Glover; born 17 June 1986) is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. [1] 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 has won the Rowing World Cup in the quadruple sculls in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 and the double sculls in 2010, 2011 and 2012. On 14 March 2015, Grainger was part of the composite crew that won the Women's Eights Head of the River Race on the River Thames in London, setting a time of 18:58.6 for the 4 1⁄4-mile (6.8 km) championship ...
On 14 March 2006, she finished the Atlantic Rowing Race as the only solo female competitor, taking 103 days to complete the crossing. This she did unsupported, despite breaking all four of her oars and having to row with patched-up oars for more than half the race.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:English female rowers and Category:Scottish female rowers and Category:Welsh female rowers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
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]
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.
Lucy Glover (born 25 November 1998) is a British rower. [2] In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the quadruple sculls in Varese, Italy. [3] She has been selected for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [4]
Craig then retained her titles at the 2023 European Rowing Championships in Bled and the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade. [9] Alongside rowing partner Imogen Grant, Craig suffered disappointment at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, [10] finishing half a second behind the gold medal crew and missing out on a medal by 0.01 seconds.