Katherine Grainger

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Katherine Grainger (2012)

Dame Katherine Grainger DBE (born November 12, 1975 in Glasgow ) is a British rower . By 2016 she won six world titles, one Olympic gold medal and four Olympic silver medals.

Career

Grainger began rowing in 1993, she first competed in rowing world championships in 1997 and won the bronze medal with the British eighth , the first ever world championship medal for a British woman eighth . Grainger switched back and forth between belt boats and scull boats several times during her long career . So she competed in the 1998 World Cup in singles and in 1999 in quadruples . In 2000 she won her first World Cup regatta in a quadruple scull. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, the British four-man finished second behind the German boat, winning the first Olympic medal for British women's rowing.

In the 2001 World Cup season, Grainger competed with Catherine Bishop in a two-man without a helmsman and also won the regatta in Vienna, at the World Championships she reached the finals in both a two-man and eight-man but remained without a medal. In 2002 Grainger was again active in the quadruple scull, but who also fit a world championship medal here. In 2003 Grainger finished first, second and third in the World Cup together with Bishop, and at the World Championships they both won ahead of the boats from Belarus and Romania. In 2004 they repeated their three podium places in the World Cup, in the Olympic final the Romanians Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu won ahead of the two Britons and the Belarusians.

In 2005 Grainger returned to the quad scull, which dominated the World Cup season with two wins and a second place and also remained victorious in the World Championship regatta. In 2006, the four-man who had only been moved to one position remained unbeaten in the World Cup and the World Championships; the following year, the boat, which was again supplemented with only one rower, achieved two World Cup victories and a second place, the world championship regatta brought Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger the third title in a row. In the 2008 Olympic season the boat remained unchanged in terms of personnel, but only won the first World Cup race, in Lucerne the Chinese won ahead of the Americans and the British. The Chinese women won the Olympic regatta in Beijing in front of their home crowd, and Katherine Grainger received the third Olympic silver medal.

In 2009 Grainger returned after eleven years in the single and won the first World Cup regatta, but missed the podium in the other two regattas in fourth. At the world championships only the Belarusian rower Ekaterina Karsten reached the finish before Grainger. In 2010 Grainger dared a double start in double sculls and double sculls at all World Cup regattas, she won five races and only finished second in the double sculls once. At the World Championships she only started in double sculls and won the title together with Anna Watkins . In 2011 Watkins and Grainger were victorious in two World Cup races and at the World Championships, in 2012 they won all three World Cup regattas and the Olympic final.

After winning the Olympic gold, Grainger did not take part in international regattas for two years. At the end of May 2015 she competed with Victoria Thornley in a double scull at the European Championships in Poznan ; behind the boats from Poland and Lithuania, the two British women won the bronze medal. In 2016 at the Olympic Games Thornley and Grainger received silver behind the Poles.

Grainger grew up in Aberdeen and competes for the St Andrew Boat Club in Edinburgh. She has a law degree from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters degree in Medical Law from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from King's College London . In 2006 she was appointed Member and in 2013 Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 2017 she was appointed Dame Commander and awarded the Thomas Keller Medal by the World Rowing Association.

Final battle placements

Olympic games

World championships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N8
  2. ↑ Great Britain's Katherine Grainger wins 2017 Thomas Keller Medal. World Rowing Association, June 29, 2017, accessed on June 30, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Grainger, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow