Caryn Davies

Caryn Davies

Caryn Davies after winning gold in the Beijing Olympics
Personal information
Born	April 14, 1982 (1982-04-14) (age 35) Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Medal record Women's rowing Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Women's eight 2012 London Women's eight 2004 Athens Women's eight FISA World Rowing Championships 2002 Seville Women's eight 2003 Milan Women's four w/o cox 2006 Eton, UK Women's eight 2007 Munich Women's eight World Rowing Cup 2004 Munich Women's eight 2004 Lucerne Women's eight 2008 Lucerne Women's eight 2011 Lucerne Women's eight 2012 Lucerne Women's eight 2006 Lucerne Women's eight 2004 Munich Women's pair 2005 Munich Women's quad sculls

Caryn Davies (born April 14, 1982 in Ithaca, New York) is an American rower. She won gold medals as the stroke seat in women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. In April 2015 Davies stroked Oxford University to victory in the first ever women's Oxford/Cambridge boat race held on the same stretch of the river Thames in London where the men's Oxford/Cambridge race has been held since 1829. She was the most highly decorated Olympian to take part in either [men's or women's] race. In 2012 Davies was ranked number 4 in the world by the International Rowing Federation. At the 2004 Olympic Games she won a silver medal in the women's eight. Davies has won more Olympic medals than any other U.S. oarswoman. The 2008 U.S. women's eight, of which she was a part, was named FISA (International Rowing Federation) crew of the year. Davies is from Ithaca, New York, where she graduated from Ithaca High School, and rowed with the Cascadilla Boat Club. Davies was on the Radcliffe College (Harvard) Crew Team and was a member on Radcliffe's 2003 NCAA champion Varsity 8, and overall team champion. In 2013, she was a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she stroked the college men's eight to a victory in both Torpids (spring intercollegiate races) and the Oxford University Summer Eights races (for the first time in Oxford rowing history). In 2013–14 Davies took up Polynesian outrigger canoeing in Hawaii, winning the State novice championship and placing 4th in the long distance race na-wahine-o-ke-kai with her team from the Outrigger Canoe Club. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame. She has served as a Vice President of the U.S. Olympians Association and as athletes' representative to the Board of USRowing.