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Imogen Grant

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Imogen Grant
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born (1996-02-26) 26 February 1996 (age 28)
Cambridge, England
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportRowing
EventLightweight double sculls
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Lwt double sculls
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Račice Lwt double sculls
Gold medal – first place 2023 Belgrade Lwt double sculls
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Plovdiv Lwt single sculls
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Ottensheim Lwt double sculls
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Oberschleißheim Lwt double sculls
Gold medal – first place 2023 Bled Lwt double sculls
Silver medal – second place 2021 Varese Lwt double sculls

Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.

Early life

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Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College Cambridge.[1]

Rowing

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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]

Olympic gold medal

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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]

Other

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Who is Imogen Grant? The Cambridge born and bred rower representing her city". Cambridge News. Retrieved 2 August 2024.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "2018 World Championship results" (PDF). World Rowing. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. ^ "2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Final A (Final)". World Rowing. Archived from the original on 19 May 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  5. ^ "2022 World Cup III results". World Rowing. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  6. ^ Woods, Mark (13 August 2022). "British rowing bounces back with four golds in European Championships". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  7. ^ "World Rowing Championships: GB win four golds on penultimate day". BBC. 24 September 2022. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Rowing - World Championships - 2023". The Sports.org. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Craig & Grant cruise to gold after men win silver". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  10. ^ "GRANT Imogen". Paris 2024 Olympics.
  11. ^ "Britain's golden rowers crush the competition… now one of them is off to be a doctor". Daily Telegraph. 2 August 2024. Archived from the original on 21 August 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
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