Micheen Thornycroft
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Micheen Barbara Thornycroft |
| Nickname(s) | Mouse |
| Nationality | Zimbabwean |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Born |
26 June 1987 Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Education | Peterhouse Girls' School |
| Alma mater | |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Zimbabwe
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| Sport | Rowing |
| Event(s) | Single scull |
| Coached by |
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| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals |
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| Personal best(s) | 07:30.570 at 2016 Summer Olympics |
| Updated on 4 April 2016. | |
Micheen Barbara Thornycroft (born 26 June 1987), is a Zimbabwean female rower. Born in Harare, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics in the single scull events for the national team.
Thornycroft's achievements in the sporting discipline have seen her being nominated for the ANSA (Annual National Sports Award) Sportswoman of the Year Award twice, in 2013 and in 2015.
Micheen was born on 26 of June 1987 in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has an older sister (Roseanne) and a younger brother (Patrick). Initially home-schooled for Grade One, Thornycroft went to Springvale House, an independent school in Mashonaland East for primary schooling and on to Peterhouse Girls' School, another independent school also in Mashonaland East, for her secondary education. Peterhouse was the school where she began rowing and met her coach, Rachel Davis.
Thornycroft did her tertiary education in South Africa. At Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Thornycroft read Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, and Ichthyology and Fisheries studies for her undergraduate education. She then did her Honours in Ichthyology and Fisheries studies. Thornycroft was also president of the Rowing Club and in 2009, she won the Sportswoman of the Year Award at the Rhodes University Sports Council Awards Dinner. Afterward, she went on to do a postgraduate in Teaching at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
In November, Thornycroft qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games by finishing first in the women's single sculls at the Africa Continental Qualification Regatta held in Alexandria, Egypt. Male counterpart, James Fraser-Mackenzie, also qualified for the Olympics after the finishing second in the Final B race at the same regatta.
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