Katherine Grainger
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| Birth name | Katherine Jane Grainger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United Kingdom
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12 November 1975 Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Residence | Maidenhead, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater |
King's College London University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh |
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| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Double Sculls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Edinburgh University Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Andrew Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Paul Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Dame Katherine Jane Grainger DBE (born 12 November 1975) is a British rower and with five Olympic medals is Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion. Since 2015 she has been chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's Quadruple Sculls. In Athens in 2004, she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the Quadruple Sculls.
At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the Double Sculls final, before going on to win the gold medal. Grainger secured a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger has won eight medals at World Championships, between 1997 and 2011.
Grainger's family moved to Netherley, Aberdeenshire. She attended Bearsden Academy.
Grainger holds an LLB at the University of Edinburgh, an LLM in medical law at the University of Glasgow, and a PhD in law at King's College London. In July 2013 King's made Grainger a fellow. She remarked, "Without planning it both my Olympic career and my PhD have met at the same time and the culmination for both is 2012 – not by design."
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