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Helen Glover (rower)

Helen Glover
MBE
Helen Glover with 2012 Olympic Gold medal.jpg
Glover showing her gold medal from the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name Helen Rachel Mary Glover
Nationality British
Born (1986-06-17) 17 June 1986 (age 30)
Truro, Cornwall, England, UK
Residence Buckinghamshire, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 70 kg (154.32 lb)
Sport
Country  Great Britain
Sport Rowing
Turned pro 2010
Partner Heather Stanning 2010–12, 2014-
Polly Swann 2013-2014
Coached by Paul Stannard 2008–10
Robin Williams 2010–13, 2014
Paul Thompson 2014
Achievements and titles
World finals Champion (W2-) 2013, 2014, 2015
Olympic finals Champion (W2-) 2012, 2016
Highest world ranking World #1 female in 2014
Personal best(s) 6:50.61 at 2014 World Rowing Championships (WR)

Helen Glover MBE (born 17 June 1986) is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. Ranked the number 1 female rower in the world since 2015, she is a two time Olympic champion, triple World champion, quintuple World Cup champion and triple European champion. As of June 2016, she and her partner Heather Stanning are the World, Olympic, World Cup and European record holders, plus the reigning Olympic, World and European champions in the women's coxless pairs. She has also been a British champion in both women's fours and quad sculls.

At the 2012 Olympic Games, in partnership with Heather Stanning, she set the Olympic record and won the gold medal in the women's coxless pairs, the first gold medal won by Team GB at the 2012 Games and the first Olympic gold medal for British women's rowing. At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in South Korea, she became the world champion with her partner Polly Swann, with whom she also won the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade and thus became the first woman to hold the Olympic, World and European titles for the coxless pair. She retained her world title and set the world record time in partnership with Heather Stanning at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, and they retained their World title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France. In 2016, they retained their European title at Brandenburg an der Havel, set the World Rowing Cup record time at Poznan and again won gold in the Olympics.

She is the reigning women's champion of the BBC's Olympic Superstars.


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